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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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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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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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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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Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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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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