"The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken."

"Lunatics are writers whose works write them."

"What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't …"

"What is this thing, "imagination?" A muscle that can be "forced" or "stretched"? Or something immune to the ethos of …"

"As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens."

"Right now I’m working on a book set in the thirty years on either side of 2010, but I shouldn’t give too many details…"

"Perhaps the best answer is that the writer that I am has been shaped by the stammering kid that I was, and that altho…"

"I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back."

"Whoever dies with the most stuff wins."

"The body is the outermost layer of the mind."