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.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

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

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

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

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

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