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You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.
Tomi Adeyemi
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You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it took to get that writer to the book you're holding.
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With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources of support for your entire life.
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I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan, but I still think there is a lot of anime that is crazier than 'Harry Potter,' and that was a seven-book masterpiece.
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I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me, too, so that's how into me I was.
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I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.
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I deeply believed that I wasn't worthy - that I couldn't be in the stories even I was creating. I don't want anyone else to feel like that.
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I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to help people of all races, ethnicities, and orientations understand that no matter what differences we may think we have, everyone is a human, and everyone deserves to be respected and valued.
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If I went to any other college, I probably would have been pre-med. But I felt like I had freedom to do what I wanted to do at Harvard.
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The things I want to do mostly involve writing.
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Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other things that they could be watching or reading or doing.
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It's not about creating something that eight billion people would like. It's about creating something and being able to reach the maybe, like, one million people that would like it a lot.
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