I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it…

- Karin Tidbeck

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labele…

- Karin Tidbeck

Worldbuilding to me is taking the consequences of an idea.

- Karin Tidbeck

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

- Karin Tidbeck

Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.

- Karin Tidbeck

I have control of my own style.

- Karin Tidbeck

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventure…

- Karin Tidbeck

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

- Karin Tidbeck

When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien …

- Karin Tidbeck