That which could hunger, could starve.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.