I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

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.

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

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.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

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