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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
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The big talent is persistence.
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
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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 human condition that you were stopped from examining.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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