Matthew Tobin Anderson

“I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.”

“I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.”

“Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.”

“It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.”

“I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.”

“It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.”