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"I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that."
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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."
"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."
"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."
"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."
"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."
"So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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