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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
Octavia Butler
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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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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