Fiction Is A Branch Of Neurology

All Through My Career I've Written 1,000 Words A Day - Even If I've Got A Hangover. You've Got To Discipline Yourself If You're Professional. There's No Other Way.

I Believe That If It Were Possible To Scrap The Whole Of Existing Literature, All Writers Would Find Themselves Inevitably Producing Something Very Close To Sf ... No Other Form Of Fiction Has The Vocabulary Of Ideas And Images To Deal With The Present, Let Alone The Future.

I Came To Live In Shepperton In 1960. I Thought: The Future Isn't In The Metropolitan Areas Of London. I Want To Go Out To The New Suburbs, Near The Film Studios. This Was The England I Wanted To Write About, Because This Was The New World That Was Emerging.

It Seems To Me That What Most Of Us Have To Fear For The Future Is Not That Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, But Rather That Nothing Is Going To Happen... I Could Sum Up The Future In One Word, And That Word Is Boring. The Future Is Going To Be Boring.

The Technological Landscape Of The Present Day Has Enfranchised Its Own Electorates - The Inhabitants Of The Marketing Zones In The Consumer Society, Television Audiences And News Magazine Readerships, Who Vote With Money At The Cash Counter Rather Than With Ballot Paper At The Polling Boot. These Huge And Passive Electorates Are Wide Open To Any Opportunist Using The Psychological Weaponry Of Fear And Anxiety, Elements That Are Carefully Blanched Out Of The World Of Domestic Products And Consumer Software.