"People who want to write either do it……" — Octavia Butler

"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 - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up."

— Octavia Butler

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