I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

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

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.

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

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies