I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.