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Out Quotes by Octavia Butler
- And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind…
- I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the…
- You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.…
- I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
- I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
- Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization…
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