I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I'm not so interested in the act of murder as in the echoes and repercussions of the act, and how they play out over time.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

You cannot write for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then.…