A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.