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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

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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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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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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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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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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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The big talent is persistence.
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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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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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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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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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