Quote by 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 doesn't exist…

— 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 after all—or…

— Octavia E. Butler

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

— 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 are buying…

— 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 for bread…

— 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

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

— 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 do anything…

— 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 shapes. 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 with adults…

— Octavia E. Butler

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

— Octavia E. Butler