Tony DiTerlizzi

If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.

I feel very proud in what we've created in the 'Spiderwick' stories. And, frankly, I am glad we are ending the series on a high-note.

Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.

Everybody in life is a chameleon.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

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.