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

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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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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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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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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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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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The big talent is persistence.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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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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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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