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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.
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
Octavia Butler
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
Octavia Butler
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
Octavia Butler
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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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
Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
Octavia Butler
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
Octavia Butler
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
All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
Octavia Butler
The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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