The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.
Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.
With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they're marks on the page, and that's all. There's nothing else to them.
