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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
- Characters
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- Nov 07, 2020