All 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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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.
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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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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.
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People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
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While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.
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I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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