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.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

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

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.