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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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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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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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