Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

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

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

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.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.