If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.