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There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.


Donita K. Paul

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J. K. ROWLING It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. ROWLING Coincidences are spiritual puns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. ROWLING The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understandin...
J. K. ROWLING It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. JEMISIN As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat...
N. K. JEMISIN Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can b...
N. K. JEMISIN This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic,...
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