Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

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

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

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

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.