My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

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

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.