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

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.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

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

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

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.

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.