Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Why do so many people dislike science fiction? The answer goes like this: You have to think of science fiction in contrast to its nearest competitor, heroic fa…

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Ag…

A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast …