“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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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 
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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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