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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

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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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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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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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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 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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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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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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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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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 give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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