I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

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

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.