If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.
We are a very, very unusual species.
What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
We are the storytelling animal.