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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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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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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 have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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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 would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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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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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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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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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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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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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