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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
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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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I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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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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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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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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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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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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