I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent i….

Science fiction is very healthy in its form..

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously..

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated..

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt..

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint..

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, alt….

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole..

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my c….

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important..

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which..

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret..

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back..

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and s….

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy w….

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to..

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory..

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could..

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously ….

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are inter….

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal..