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

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

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

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

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

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.