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.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

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.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

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