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The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

I like what I do, and a lot of these projects have really interesting material and interesting people to work with. I feel lucky.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

I feel like I learn in every project.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

I don't think in terms of projects.