Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.