No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

Speak to the breeze cautiously during those lonely summer nights.

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

The only time you were safe was when you were dead.

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

I don't expect never an easy match. I always expect difficult matches.

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

Comedy works in fashion cycles, in a way. And sometimes, studios will imitate those cycles a little too much.