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

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

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.

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.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.