We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.