The Thing All Writers Do Best Is

Spontaneity Is One Of The Joys Of Existence, Especially If You Prepare For It In Advance.

Growing Up, I Never Gave A Thought To Being A Writer. All I Ever Wanted To Be Was A Traveler And Explorer. Science-fiction Allowed Me To Go Places That Were Otherwise Inaccessible, Which Is Why I Started Reading It.

How Much Research I Have To Do Depends On The Nature Of The Story. For Fantasy, None At All.

Writing Allows Me The Time To Travel And See The World, Which Is What I Always Wanted To Do. I'd Really Like To Have Been Sir Richard Francis Burton, But It's The Wrong Century.

An Apex Is Always Surrounded Only By Emptiness