"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
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"I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it."
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"In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over."
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"Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say."
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"Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store."
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"No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic."
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"I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me."
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"I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain."
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"Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes."
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"What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier."
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"Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs."
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"I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all."
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"I used to not back down from a challenge."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"Motivation is the power behind plot."
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"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
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"To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands."
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"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
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"One thing nobody can do better than you is be you."
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"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
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