I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.