JULIE KAGAWA

Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.

My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human.

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

Me? Robin Goodfellow, a family man? He, not likely, ice-boy. I mean, think of what that would do to my reputation. Glamour shimmered around him, and he gave us a wink. Later, lovebirds. Gimme a heads up when the kid arrives. 'Uncle Puck' will be waiting.

It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.

I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

You are my heart, my life, my entire existence.

I was minding my own buisness long before you and the princess started humping like rabbits.