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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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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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Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
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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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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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