I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

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