Quotes Octavia Butler

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure ...

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not sc...

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the...

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres,...

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is f...

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and t...

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started ...

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get aw...

I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out,...

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell....

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have differen...

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal rese...

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide op...

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my cons...

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to...

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span...

If it's something I'm trying to write for any reason other t...

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke o...

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to r...

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we...

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even wh...

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way peo...

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you'r...

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like....

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all...