Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.