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" When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it clear that it's not okay. "

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" I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers. "

" Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife. "

" Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that. "

" Know that you're gonna screw up, and be OK with it, and do better next time. "

" Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile. "

" Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges. "

" I enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways. "

" We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones. "

" This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going socially and culturally that doesn't overly confuse the reader. "

" I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it. "

" Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words! "

" One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and we can be the masters of our own stories. "

" I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf. "

" I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways. "

" As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past to remind us that what we believe has always been true - that men and women are somehow static categories, or that men in power has always been the default, or that same-sex love affairs were always taboo - has not always been thus. "

" I write for free online out of love, passion, and often, rage. "

" If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before. "

" I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different. "

" As for the best '80s action movie, I'm going to be predictable here and say 'Die Hard.' I watch that movie at least twice a year. Perfect script. "

" Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation. "

" I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war. "

" What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false. "

" I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have it all for it to work for me. "

" I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology, as it is about altering the places we choose to live. "

" What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways. "

" I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those writers make me want to tear my hair out. "

" I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like what's on the shelves. "

" Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn't like the first one. "

" Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance. "

" I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy. "