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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
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No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
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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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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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We see what we are told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear and to see Even an obvious lie Again And again and again May be to say it, Almost by reflex Then to defend it Because we have said it And at last to embrace it Because we've defended it.
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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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People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
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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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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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