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" As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. "
Catholic Church
Church
Meant To Be
" As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted. "
Me
Create
Long
" But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. "
Hope
Understood
Science
" But it's not just a game of finding literary references. "
Finding
Just
References
" I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed. "
Writer
Being
Before
" I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. "
Everything
Teacher
Loved
" It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it? "
Odd
How
Humor
" It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. "
Relax
One Thing
Exhausted
" It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. "
Small Town
Small
Town
" Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. "
Down
History
Film
" No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. "
Write
Inspired
Me
" There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed. "
Art
Best
Trust
" The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. "
Great
Truth Is
Truth
" Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. "
Teacher
Writing
Beyond
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