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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

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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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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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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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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for 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 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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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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