Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
Octavia Butler
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Octavia Butler
Nothing
Choking
Choke
Rage
Best
More quotes by Octavia Butler
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
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
Octavia Butler
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
Octavia Butler
Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
Octavia Butler
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
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
Octavia Butler
I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
Octavia Butler
I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
Octavia Butler
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
Octavia Butler
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia Butler
I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
Octavia Butler
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
Octavia Butler
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
Octavia Butler
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
Octavia Butler
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
Octavia Butler
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
Octavia Butler
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
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
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Octavia Butler
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
