I Sold My Very First Novel When

When Tending A Vast And Beautiful Garden, You Have To Plant Many Seeds, Never Knowing Ahead Of Time Which Ones Will Germinate, Which Will Produce The Most Glorious Flowers, Which Will Bear The Sweetest Fruit. A Good Gardener Plants Them All, Tends And Nurtures Them, And Wishes Them Well. Optimism Is The Best Fertilizer.

We Each Have Our Lives... What Matters Is Not How Long Those Lives Last, But What We Do With Them.

I Mean, I Wasn't Stupid. I Knew We'd Make Money And Sell A Lot Of Dune Books.

My Total Year's Income From Working As Hard As I Possibly Could From Writing Went From Like $30 One Year To About $70 The Next Year. And It Made Me Realize That Maybe You Couldn't Really Pay The Rent That Way.

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.