An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.