Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well

I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.