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

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

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.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

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

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

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.