Jay Asher

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

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.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.