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• I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
• And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every…
• Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some…
• And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it.…
• But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
• I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
• I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
• I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
• I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
• People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers…
• 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.

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