Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.