A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.