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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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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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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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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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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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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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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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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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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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