It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth.

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.