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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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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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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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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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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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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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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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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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