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One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

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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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Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

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I just get too many phone calls during the day. If I'm in the middle of a scene and the phone rings, it really disrupts my concentration.

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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.

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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

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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.

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Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

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Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything

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Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

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Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

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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.

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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.

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My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

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

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Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

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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.

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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.

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You must develop your own work, become established as an author, before you would ever be asked to work in an established universe.

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I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

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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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I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

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It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

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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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