24 Quotes by Greg Van Eekhout

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive

In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.

As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.

'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.

I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

Being part of the original 'Star Wars' generation, I have always known a dark future.

I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it. You think it'd be fun.

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.