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.

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.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

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

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

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.