I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

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.

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.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

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

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