Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.

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.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

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

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

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