Nothing. It Just Finds You A Lot

I Was Attracted To Science Fiction Because It Was So Wide Open. I Was Able To Do Anything And There Were No Walls To Hem You In And There Was No Human Condition That You Were Stopped From Examining.

It's Interesting How Many Science Fiction Writers Get Going When They Are Very Young. I Was On A Program With Greg Bear And He Mentioned That He Had Gotten Started Writing When He Was Eight. And I Began Writing When I Was 10. I Think We're Influenced By The Stuff, We Find It And We Love It And We're Influenced By It....i Know I Collected My First Rejection Slip When I Was 13, And I Went On Collecting Them For A Long Time After That.

I Wasn't Trying To Work Out My Own Ancestry. I Was Trying To Get People To Feel Slavery. I Was Trying To Get Across The Kind Of Emotional And Psychological Stones That Slavery Threw At People.

The Thing About Science Fiction Is That It's Totally Wide Open. But It's Wide Open In A Conditional Way.

You Don't Start Out Writing Good Stuff. You Start Out Writing Crap And Thinking It's Good Stuff, And Then Gradually You Get Better At It. That's Why I Say One Of The Most Valuable Traits Is Persistence.