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.

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

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.

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

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

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

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