You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be