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Octavia Butler

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

— Octavia Butler time

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

— Octavia Butler writing

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.

— Octavia Butler hope

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

— Octavia Butler science

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

— Octavia Butler hate

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

— Octavia Butler leadership

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.

— Octavia Butler past

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

— Octavia Butler people

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

— Octavia Butler science

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

— Octavia Butler science

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

— Octavia Butler science

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

— Octavia Butler stories

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

— Octavia Butler good

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

— Octavia Butler writing

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

— Octavia Butler science

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

— Octavia Butler work

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.

— Octavia Butler people

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

— Octavia Butler science

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.

— Octavia Butler science

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.

— Octavia Butler people

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

— Octavia Butler science

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

— Octavia Butler writing

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

— Octavia Butler writing

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

— Octavia Butler business

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

— Octavia Butler writing

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when its all over.

— Octavia Butler time

Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina

— Octavia Butler god

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