Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

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.

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

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.

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.