“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.”
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No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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