Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.