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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

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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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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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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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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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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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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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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 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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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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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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