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The big talent is persistence.
I lost an arm on my last trip home.
There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
Kindness eases change Love quiets fear
I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
That which could hunger, could starve.
Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.
Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.
When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
Consider We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.
Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about.
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
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.