I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.

Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general

I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.