I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.