Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.