Michael Moorcock

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.