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"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."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."
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"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
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"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."
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"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
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"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
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"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
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"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."
Creativity
"No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly."
Creativity
"I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time."
Reading
"And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy."
Writing
"I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that."
Wisdom
"Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day."
Education
"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."
Spiritual
"And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing."
Lifestyle
"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."
Writing
"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."
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