“Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.”

“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.”

“I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of a sort, in which the only boundaries are those of the imagination. I do not love it for the idea of commercial fantasy. Commercial fantasy, for good or for ill, tends to drag itself through already existing furrows, furrows dug by J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert E. Howard, leaving a world of stories behind it, excluding so much. There was so much fine fiction, fiction allowing free reign to the imagination of the author, beyond the shelves of genre. That was what we wanted to read.”

“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.”

“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”

“My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine.”