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.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

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

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.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

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

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

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

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 want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

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

The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.