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.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

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

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.