David Almond

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.