PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

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

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

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