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

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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
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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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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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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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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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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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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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 was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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