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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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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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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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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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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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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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