Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved, until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.