If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.

Who would you be but who you are?

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.