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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.

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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.

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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.

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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

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I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 17th, 1971

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