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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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The big talent is persistence.
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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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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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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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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