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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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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 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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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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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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The big talent is persistence.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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