Greg van Eekhout

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

— Greg van Eekhout

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

— Greg van Eekhout

It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't…

— Greg van Eekhout

There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance…

— Greg van Eekhout

“Magic is like pulling the pin on a grenade and then sutffing it down your pants to see what happens.”

— Greg Van Eekhout

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of…

— Greg van Eekhout

If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated…

— Greg van Eekhout

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to…

— Greg van Eekhout

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

— Greg van Eekhout

I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me,…

— Greg van Eekhout

The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not…

— Greg van Eekhout

I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are…

— Greg van Eekhout

'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats…

— Greg van Eekhout

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive

— Greg van Eekhout

I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it.…

— Greg van Eekhout

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

— Greg van Eekhout

At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it's terrible and is only getting more…

— Greg van Eekhout

In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it…

— Greg van Eekhout

As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the…

— Greg van Eekhout

“A metaphor is just a condom that keeps you from catching life!”

— Greg Van Eekhout

Back in 1982, when there were still only a manageable number of 'X-Men' titles on the racks (by which I mean just…

— Greg van Eekhout

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

— Greg van Eekhout