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The big talent is persistence.

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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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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 get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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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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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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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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