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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.

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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

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In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

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As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.

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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

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Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

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Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 22nd, 1947

Died: February 24th, 2006

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