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.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

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

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

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

We must think beyond ourselves

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.