I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.