Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don't want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won't mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.