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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.
Octavia Butler
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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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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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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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 is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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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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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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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'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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