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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

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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 wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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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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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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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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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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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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