We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

As a writer, you are free.