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

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.