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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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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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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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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
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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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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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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
Octavia Butler
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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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