My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.

I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I'm sorry, but you read science fiction.'

With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.

I'm a Star Wars junkie, and I know the number of science fiction fans we have here. I knew this would be a problem, just like I knew everyone would try to download Internet Explorer 5.0 when it was released.

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.