When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

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 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.

Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.

A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal.

The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.

You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.