"First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft."
"I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel."
"[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!"
"I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel."
"It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living."
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."