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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Octavia Butler
A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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
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
There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
Octavia Butler
If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
Octavia Butler
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of 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
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
A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
Octavia Butler
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
Octavia Butler
Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
Octavia Butler
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Octavia Butler
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
Octavia Butler
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
Octavia Butler
Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
Octavia Butler
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
Octavia Butler
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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
You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
Octavia Butler