The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
Suggestion is a literary strategy.
I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.