In Every Book I Write, I Try

You Can't See The Future, There's No Such Thing. It's All Bets. You'll Never Get The Same Answer From Two Seers. But That Doesn't Mean Either Of Them's Wrong.

The Problem With Most Genre Fantasy Is That It's Not Nearly Fantastic Enough. It's Escapist, But It Can't Escape.

...where's The Skill In Being A Hero If You Were Always Destined To Do It?

I Think The Role Of Science Fiction Is Not At All To Prophesy. I Think It Is To Tell Interesting, Vivid, Strange Stories That At Their Best Are Dreamlike Intense Versions And Visions Of Today.

I Think There's Something Quite Interesting About The Almost Tragic Quality Of A Lot Of Overwrought Prose, Because It Has A Much More Self-conscious Awareness Of Its Own Failure To Touch The Real.