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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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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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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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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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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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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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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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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
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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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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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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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