"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."

"On my first day of work as a pork butcher the boss showed me a side of meat and said 'just treat the animal like you treat the ladies.' He then hacked off part of the rib cage with a swing of his clea…"

"Just as mainstream literature shows us how our contemporaries view the present, and historical fiction shows us how they view the past , so speculative fiction shows us how they view the future. I hap…"

"In recent years, Britain has withdrawn from the world. On Syria, on Europe, on Ukraine this government has been on the periphery: all victim of the same lack of long-term strategic thinking about Brit…"

"Why is it so hard to do a thing Now, at the moment when one thinks of it."