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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

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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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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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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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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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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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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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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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