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..

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price..

I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listenin….

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors 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..

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors..

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length..

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot ….

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

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or backgr….

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 th….

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

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get..

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day..

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

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

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgit….

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days..

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion..

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 ….

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