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Greg Van Eekhout Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In everything I write, I’m always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness Picture Quote #1

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Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It’s about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents’ influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive Picture Quote #1

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness Picture Quote #1

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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. (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) 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! (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) 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. (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) 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. (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) 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. (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) 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 Quotes) Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It’s about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents’ influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you. (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) 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. (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) 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. (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) 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. (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes) As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness (Greg Van Eekhout Quotes)