The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.
The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.
The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss.
I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.
Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.
Writing is investigation.
I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential.
