7 Quotes by William Sleator

Hello, Martin.

He reached out and took her hand. Neither cared that someone might see. They had been taught all their lives that the only deep feelings between men and women were sexual, but now they knew that it was a lie. They were friends and they loved one another, and their hand-holding was perfectly innocent. It was one more thing to rejoice in, one more way in which they had risen above the system, above the machine.

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.

The discomforting claim made by biologists that people live among dense swarms of invisible microorganisms – no matter how “hygienic” people imagine themselves to be – turned out to be true.