We Must Think Beyond Ourselves

I Had A Minor In Russian History, And This Was At The Time When The Big Cold War Was Going On.

For A Feature In Next Month's Issue Of Prog Magazine, The Photographer Spent Many Hours Setting Up A Photo Shoot Of Me With Part Of My Music Collection In My Writing Office. Since I Do Most Of My Writing Outside In Nature, We Felt This Shot Was Most Representative.

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.

I Don't Think The Author Should Make The Reader Do That Much Work To Remember Who Somebody Is.

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.