Octavia E. Butler

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that…

— Octavia E. Butler

“It’s too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won’t happen…

— Octavia E. Butler

“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“Se sono tuoi, stabilisci tu le regole. A chi importa che cosa ne pensano i giocattoli? Spazza via l'intera famiglia di un…

— Octavia E. Butler

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“In the book of Job, God says he made everything and he knows everything so no one has any right to question…

— Octavia E. Butler

“But there’s no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge…

— Octavia E. Butler

“After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Self is. Self is body and bodily perception. Self is thought, memory, belief. Self creates. Self destroys. Self learns, discovers, becomes. Self…

— Octavia E. Butler

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable…

— Octavia E. Butler

“It was milk that had sickened her. Animal milk! These people cooked many things with animal milk!”

— Octavia E. Butler

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

— Octavia E. Butler

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“We have, it seems, a few people who think Jarret may be just what the country needs—apart from his religious nonsense. The…

— Octavia E. Butler

“in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: “I couldn’t really let her come all…

— Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

— Octavia E. Butler

“Così funziona. Quel Dio dell'Antico Testamento non contraddice il mondo in cui sono le cose adesso, ma assomiglia parecchio a Zeus. Sembra…

— Octavia E. Butler

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

“Or it's happening because Shori is black, and racists—probably Ina racists—don't like the idea that a good part of the answer to…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Reading these tales is like looking at a photograph of a child whom you only knew as an adult. In her eyes…

— Octavia E. Butler

“I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off…

— Octavia E. Butler

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group…

— Octavia E. Butler