Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

I know I'm not great at structure and story.

You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.