Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.