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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

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The big talent is persistence.
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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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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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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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