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

Octavia Butler

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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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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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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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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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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
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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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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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