Greg van Eekhout

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

The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species. ”

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. ”

More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction. ”

If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated for me in Los Angeles on KABC's Channel Seven 3:30 movie. Apes enslaving humans! Mutants with boils and an atom bomb! Ape riots in Century City! They killed baby Caesar's parents! ”

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

I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body. ”