Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

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

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