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I lost an arm on my last trip home.

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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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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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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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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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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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