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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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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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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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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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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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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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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
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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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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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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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