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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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The big talent is persistence.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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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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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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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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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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