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

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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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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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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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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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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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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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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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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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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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 was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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