I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

I really fell in love with Africa.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.