I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.