Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 8, 1954
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orp….
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To….
I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw….
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me..
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers..
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them f….
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?.
My donors have always tended to do much better than expected..
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all..
Your life must now run the course that's been set for it..
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are….
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust..
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you..
She always wanted to believe in things..
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed..
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma..
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of..
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened..
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers..
As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such….
All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But….