John Scalzi

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.