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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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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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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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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.
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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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