Fiction Quotes by Octavia Butler

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

— Octavia Butler

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

— Octavia Butler

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…

— Octavia Butler

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your…

— Octavia Butler

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

— Octavia Butler

Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

— Octavia Butler

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

— Octavia Butler

“In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina”

— Octavia Butler

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 Butler

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,

— Octavia Butler

Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools,…

— Octavia Butler

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself…

— Octavia Butler

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

— Octavia Butler

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

— Octavia Butler

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

— Octavia Butler