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

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.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

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

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

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

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.