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    A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

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    But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

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    Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

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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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    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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    Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

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    Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

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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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    Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

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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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    I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.

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    I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

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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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    I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

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    I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

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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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    I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

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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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    It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

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    It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

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    I used to not back down from a challenge.

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    I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

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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.

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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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    Motivation is the power behind plot.

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    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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    No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

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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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    Normal' is a dryer setting.

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    Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

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    One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

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    One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

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    Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

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    People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

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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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    So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

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    There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

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    There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

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    This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

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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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    When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

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    Adventures are not predictable and moderately exciting, with predetermined outcomes. Adventures are things going wrong: situations you don't expect, friends who betray you, equipment that fails when you most need it, enemies who are stronger and even smarter than you, and the possibility--no, the certainty, at times--that you will be injured or die. And it is for the real adventures--the ones where your knowledge, your skills, and your strength of character are necessary to complete your assigned mission--that the carefully designed training adventures here in the Academy prepare you.

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    Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.

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    The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. Maybe my questions matter.

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    The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper