I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.