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

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.

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

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

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.