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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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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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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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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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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The big talent is persistence.
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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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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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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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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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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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