I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I really fell in love with Africa.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.