I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
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… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina” — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
