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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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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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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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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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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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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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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