Anything for gold and experience.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge