Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.

I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.