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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
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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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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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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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