By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.