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.

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.

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

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.