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The Process Of Writing A Novel Is Like Taking A Journey By Boat. You Have To Continually Set Yourself On Course. If You Get Distracted Or Allow Yourself To Drift, You Will Never Make It To The Destination. It's Not Like Highly Defined Train Tracks Or A Highway; This Is A Path That You Are Creating Discovering. The Journey Is Your Narrative. Keep To It And There Will Be A Tale Told.

Freedom Is A State Of Mind, I Said Wondering Where I'd Heard It Before, Not A State Of Being. We Are All Slaves To Gravity And Morality And The Vicissitudes Of Nature. Our Genes Govern Us Much More Than We'd Like To Think. Our Bodies Can Not Know Absolute Freedom But Our Minds Can, Can At Least Try.

The Fear In My Heart Was Like In One Of Those Dreams Where You Try To Run But You Can't Do It, You Can't Run Because The Fear Is An Anchor In Your Chest.

Science Fiction [is] The Kind Of Writing That Prepares Us For The Necessary Mutations Brought About In Society From An Ever Changing Technological World And As A Result. The Mainstream Hasn’t Excluded Sf; The Mainstream Has Excluded Itself. No One Told Jules Verne He Was A Science Fiction Writer, But He Invented The 20th Century.

My Father Always Taught By Telling Stories About His Experiences. His Lessons Were About Morality And Art And What Insects And Birds And Human Beings Had In Common. He Told Me What It Meant To Be A Man And To Be A Black Man. He Taught Me About Love And Responsibility, About Beauty, And How To Make Gumbo.