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I lost an arm on my last trip home.

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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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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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All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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The big talent is persistence.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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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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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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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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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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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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