There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.

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.

Life is nothing but a few ecstatic dancing atoms.

Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/Good man's blood will drain away/While the wickid win the day.

Keep Holding on there's no other way to comes to the truth.

Don't stop aspiring. Just learn to duck. . .

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?