Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a Trek person. I feel about Trek the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.

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

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