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.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

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

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

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