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

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

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.

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

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.

Traditional hackathons are fun and focused on skill and competition, but we believe that events which focus on the positive social impact of technology engage a wider and more diverse set of participants.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.