But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.
I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel...A Very English Affair)
