ZELDA WILLIAMS

I think the concept of ego has kind of taken over for a lot of people in our industry.

Probably the most important thing in terms of just trying to navigate and moving forward into adulthood is staying busy.

I was always comfortable with my sexuality.

I'm not a girly girl. I never have been.

I didn't really grow up in the spotlight.

I watch every horror film that comes out in theatres. I watch every horror film that's on Netflix.

Social media is really not for conversations. There are people that you can meet and talk to on it, but it was not created for that. People wanted things that were soap boxes, where they could say what they wanted, and they don't have to respond to anyone else.

Truthfully, you're not your audience, so all that self-consciousness and all that - it gets in the way of you actually just being the best thing in whatever thing that you're doing.

My family has always been private about our time spent together.

Whether by my own volition or otherwise, I was given a year-and-a-half break after Dad passed. It was kind of like an elephant in the room, and everyone was giving me space, whether I wanted it or not.

I had a shaved head for six years.

I have two dogs, and I write at home.

Dad was, is, and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I've ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful, and less full of laughter in his absence.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

Being bisexual doesn't mean I'm suddenly willy-nilly running around.

I've been working really hard, and it's been nice because you get to not sit with yourself for too long.

I like hummingbirds.

I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn't play as much as I used to.

Hummingbirds are fun and flighty and strange. It's hard to keep them in one place, and Dad was a bit like that.

I'm really casual.

Cartoons make kids happy, and that's a great feeling.

When I embarked on creating 'Shrimp' a couple of years ago, I never could've imagined where this journey would take me or the wonderful people I'd come to know along the way.

For me it's easy to continue remembering someone that is impossible to forget.

For a man so incredibly hairy and square, watching my dad get on a bike was like watching a penguin spread its wings and take flight. He'd take off at inhuman speed, a smile on his face, and never look back.

For me, there's a lot of erasure of bisexuality. I think a lot of people - especially in women - they tend to have really bad responses to it.