Quotes About Author

Alarmed, I looked at him, then the road, then at him again.

I'm a pixy, Rachel. I may look all tough and stuff, but I got wings, and I know infatuation when I see it.

Tea? Jenks was standing next to the plate of petits fours. You want to have tea? Are you nerking futs?

This was weird, civilized.Yes, I've come to rob you, sir. / How delightful; won't you have some tea before you do?

You think being a demon's familiar is a good thing? What train hit you on the way home?

Rachel, you are one crazy bitch. But I like you. Your loyalty impresses me. It makes putting up with the rest of your crap worth it.

giving him a painful bunny-eared kiss-kiss

Nice? Tink's tampons, Rache. You never let me have any fun

Justice's wheels were greased with paper and fueled by quick feet on the streets.

A stray strand of Ivy's black hair was hitting my face as I rode behind her.

And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.

If you want to write a novel about our world now, you'd better write science fiction, or you will be doing some kind of inadvertent nostalgia piece; you will lack depth, miss the point, and remain confused.

I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism. I'm interested in portraying futures where there are more cooperative, altruistic, post-capitalist systems that are working well.

To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka

a Greimas semantic rectangle, a structuralist schema with alchemical ancestry

Modern Monetary Theory was in some ways a re-introduction of Keynesian economics into the climate crisis.

most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That's libertarians for you—anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

That is the great pleasure of conspiracy theory—not explanation, but narrative. It is like Scheherazade.

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration.

about his belief in God and the fact that he seemed to have a huge amount of respect for her and her decision to remain celibate.

her own heating issues, she'd known her former classmate wasn't the owner of it.

with some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.

Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.

See that car?' It was Welch's, parked slightly nearer one kerb than the other