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Octavia Butler Quotes
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure youre communicating what you think youre communicating. Its so easy as a young writer to think youre been very clear when in fact you havent. - Octavia Butler Quotes
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. Its so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when theyd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. - Octavia Butler Quotes
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. Youll note theres no science in it. Its a kind of grim fantasy. - Octavia Butler Quotes
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. - Octavia Butler Quotes
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules youve set. But if youre writing about science, you have to first learn what youre writing about. - Octavia Butler Quotes
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 Quotes
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. - Octavia Butler Quotes
I have a huge and savage conscience that wont let me get away with things. - Octavia Butler Quotes
I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out, to see how they would really work if they were real. I have to be able to do that. - Octavia Butler Quotes
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. - Octavia Butler Quotes
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership. - Octavia Butler Quotes
I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didnt really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. - Octavia Butler Quotes
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 Quotes
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. - Octavia Butler Quotes
I wasnt 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 Quotes
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. - Octavia Butler Quotes
Most of us dont have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people Im writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while theyre still inside is a good possibility. - Octavia Butler Quotes
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. - Octavia Butler Quotes
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, well do what weve always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. - Octavia Butler Quotes
No... a novel is a long business. Im a slow writer, even when Im doing very well I write slowly. - Octavia Butler Quotes
On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that. - Octavia Butler Quotes
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when youre hurt, youre really on your own. Youre alone, and theres no one to help you. - Octavia Butler Quotes
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesnt bother me. Its other people doing the calling that bothers me. - Octavia Butler Quotes
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadnt had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. - Octavia Butler Quotes
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. - Octavia Butler Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. - Octavia Butler Quotes
Third, for people who arent doing it already, take classes - theyre 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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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