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I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

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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.

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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

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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.

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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.

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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

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Science fiction is not formulaic.

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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 22nd, 1947

Died: February 24th, 2006

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