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Octavia Butler Quotes & Sayings
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33 entries tagged including 3 subtopics.
Last updated Apr 2024
Octavia Butler Topics
Frustration
Writing
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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.
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I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't 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.
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I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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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.
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Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
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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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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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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.
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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.
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