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

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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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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 lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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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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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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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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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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