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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

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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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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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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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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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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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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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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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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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