"I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories."

Home, Science, Time, Work

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"I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments."

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"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."

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"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."

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"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books."

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"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."

Income, Writing

"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."

Romantic, Romance, Literature

"We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up."

Prequels, First

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Job, Jobs, Research, Restaurants

"Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents."

Government, First, President, Research

"I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on."

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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

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