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Suggest Revision: Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
 
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Suggest Revision: Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
 
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Suggest Revision: People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
 
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Suggest Revision: Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
 
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Suggest Revision: Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
 
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Suggest Revision: So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
 
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