"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published." — Dan Simmons

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.