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"I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility."
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"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."
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"Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace."
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"Employment sells out the future life."
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"We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving."
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"Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave."
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"Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness."
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"Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."
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"Life demands death to self."
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"We became God's carriers because of the sacrifice of Jesus."
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"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
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"Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect."
Writing
"In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known."
Reflection
"I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year."
Writing
"How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all."
Creativity
"I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility."
Sacrifice
"Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved."
Science
"I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible."
Growth
"There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field."
Future
"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."
Reading
"Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies."
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