... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.