I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

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

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

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