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

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

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.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

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

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