Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
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I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.