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It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.