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In the desert, the only god is a well.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Desert
Water
Wells
Well

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Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.
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Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
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I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.
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One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that we already have all that we need.
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Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.
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The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.
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A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.
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Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
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We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.
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It is life that fights and struggles and rages life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.
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When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
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I am sure that inspiration will strike multiple times - it always does.
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Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!
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The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
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Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
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I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought Wound On The Moon .My first sale and my first pro sale rolled into one.
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We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.
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Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.
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Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
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Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
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