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

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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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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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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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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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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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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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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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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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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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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