Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.
During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
