Greg van Eekhout Quotes & Sayings

“'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.”

“As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.”

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

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

“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.”

“In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.”

“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.”

“As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.”

“At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it's terrible and is only getting more terrible with every word you write. This is normal. You just have to keep going, push your way through, and have faith that, through practice and experience and determination, you will get to the end.”

“Back in 1982, when there were still only a manageable number of 'X-Men' titles on the racks (by which I mean just one), Marvel quite reasonably figured the world could stand another team of beleaguered mutant superheroes. And so were born 'The New Mutants,' junior X-Men whose powers had just begun to manifest at the onset of puberty.”