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"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."
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"If somebody is going to kill me or hurt me..., let's be the enemy not my friends!"
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"After the satyrs filed in to dinner, the Hermes cabin brought up the rear. They were always the biggest cabin. Last summer it had been led by Luke, the guy who fought with Thalia and Annabeth on top of Half-Blood Hill. For a while, before Poseidon had claimed me, I'd lodged in the Hermes cabin. Luke had befriended me...and then he'd tried to kill me."
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"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."
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"Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it."
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"If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict."
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"But Percy Jackson has always been reliable. You have nothing to fear. Besides, he likes me. I taught him everything he knows.She frowned. "You did?I found her innocence somewhat charming. So many obvious things she did not know. "Of course. Now let's go up."
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"Either loyalty and love are same things, or loyalty is certainly a better kind of love than love."
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"If by my life or death I can protect you, I will."
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"Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall."
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"Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn't turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he'd earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they'd all follow him anywhere."
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"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."
Attitude
"A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't."
Writing
"What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way."
Science
"I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black."
Experience
"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way."
Creativity
"But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical."
Creativity
"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."
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