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The big talent is persistence.
Octavia Butler
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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Octavia Butler
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
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
Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
Octavia Butler
Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
Octavia Butler
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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
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.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
Octavia Butler
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
Octavia Butler
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Octavia Butler
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
Octavia Butler
He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
Octavia Butler
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia Butler
Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
Octavia Butler
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
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
Octavia Butler
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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