Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.