Going off the grid is always good for me. It’s the way that I’ve started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.
I kept starting ‘Anansi Boys’ as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
I want to write a play. I’d like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I’ve written.
I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn’t.
I’m a fairly undisciplined writer.
I’ve known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.
I’ve never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.
It’s a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.
My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It’s just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.
Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.