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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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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
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