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"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
"The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync."
"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."
"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
"People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place."
"My pond life with hydra is over, now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.."
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"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."
"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms."
"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."
"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."
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