Octavia E. Butler Quotes

• 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.

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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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Octavia E. Butler (34)

Birth:	22nd June, 1947
Death:	24th February, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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