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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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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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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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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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