Richard K. Morgan

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.