Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

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

I'm a very friendly socialist.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge