I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them..

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore..

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

Science fiction is very healthy in its form..

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….

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

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..

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..

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

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

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….

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..

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thin….

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin..

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

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 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..

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….

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

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck..