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I'm a fifty-three-year-old wri...

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

Octavia E. Butler 60 quotes

I lost an arm on my last trip ...

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

Octavia E. Butler 60 quotes

A workshop is a way of renting...

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.

Octavia E. Butler 60 quotes

Here I was into astronomy, and...

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 E. Butler 60 quotes

I recognize we will pay more a...

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

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I think people really need to ...

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you,

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Belief initiates and guides ac...

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

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Slavery is a long slow process...

Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.

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I'm a 48-year-old writer who c...

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

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If you want a thing--truly wan...

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

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Be who you are and not who som...

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

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The essentials are to learn to...

The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

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People who want to write eithe...

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Octavia E. Butler 60 quotes

I wanted to write a novel that...

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

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Once you grow past Mommy and D...

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

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There is no end To what a livi...

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

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No... a novel is a long busine...

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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The child in each of us Knows ...

The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.

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Better to stay alive,' I said...

Better to stay alive,' I said. 'At least while there's a chance to get free.' I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

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...I realized that I knew less...

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

Octavia E. Butler 60 quotes

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