Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.