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

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

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

We must think beyond ourselves

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

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.

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