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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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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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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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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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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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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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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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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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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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