“I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.”

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.

I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.

It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.

Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.

We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.

Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.

I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

When we’ve looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it’s just been impossible. You just cannot get one.

Even in past relationships, that I’m still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I’m still growing and becoming.