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Writing Quotes by Octavia Butler
- And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses.…
- I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
- I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
- Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for…
- Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have…
- 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 wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through…
- People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit…
- Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research…
- I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
- 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 in,…
- I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,
- No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
- Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing…
- I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be…
- If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you…
- 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…
- Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
- 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 stories.…
- I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
- Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
- 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 I…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov