That which could hunger, could starve.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

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

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

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.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.