If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.