This woman had interviewed me for the Woman's Section of the Guardian in 1994 and she said this about me without my even having to throw her hints, or play Charades. It's not something I can do when I'm sober. I can take no responsibility for the accolade except that I'm tickled to death that they said it about me and every time I see it I chuckle madly to myself. I've been on this ego-trip now and every so often I just have to go out and have someone beat me up or something to bring me back to earth. Fortunately that's not hard.
Daily life is a humbling experience.
Cadigan comes across as warm and witty. When she reads her prose in her slow, Kansan accent, the wisecracks spring out at you. She says of the humour in her fiction, 'It's something that kind of started inadvertently. Yeah, I'd like to claim that I'm witty all the time, that I can always think of something devastatingly clever to say, but it is something that sort of runs in a family with a gift for languages. I was raised by my mother and my aunt, and my aunt's business partner.