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

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.

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

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 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.

It's a wonderful thought that everyday has something to celebrate.

My mind's my kingdom.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.