Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.
"Books were safer than other people anyway."
