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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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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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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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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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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The big talent is persistence.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
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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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