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.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

[My favorite word is] and. It is so hopeful.

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.

If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that inevitably people will say, "This is feminist." Because you cannot avoid that.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.