top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
Job
"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
Time
"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
Want
"I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on."
Time
"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
Work
"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
Space
"The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones."
People
"Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too."
Science
"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."
Travel
"I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too."
Politics
bottom of page