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

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The big talent is persistence.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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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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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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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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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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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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