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"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."
"When you consistently complain about the things you are gifted to do, check your motivation."
"Don't shout my friend, no one gives you the shit unless you make them."
"I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference."
"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way."
"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."
"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."
"No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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