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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.
Octavia Butler
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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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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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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
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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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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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