Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be..

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. ….

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you..

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrot….

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage..

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 bei….

You are horror and beauty in rare combination..

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..

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 huma….

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggl….

If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It ….

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I….

A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of Go….

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change..

I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no ma….

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me..

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. ….

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..

Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word f….

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow..