Belief initiates and guides action – or it does nothing.
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write – every day, no excuses. It’s so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they’d rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you’re afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It’s about not being able to stop at all.
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.
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn’t manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I’m me and I’m here and I’m writing.
Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.
We’re all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won’t let me get away with things.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
The thing about science fiction is that it’s totally wide open. But it’s wide open in a conditional way.
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.