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Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler
American Writer
Born: Jun 22, 1947
Died: Feb 24, 2006
Me People Science Think Writing You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested. Octavia E. Butler
Bullying Seen Feeling Victim Everyone Has-Been Laughing Silent Seeing Joining Been Bullies Bully Disgusted Interested Keeping
Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world. Octavia E. Butler
Bullying Suffering Racism World Simple Cause Behavior Beginning Other Hierarchical Kind Sexism Only Lead Much
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away. Octavia E. Butler
Alone Time Class Eyes Animal Remember Unhappy First Looking Saw Locked Cage First Time Then Bare Old-Fashioned Away Zoo
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy. Octavia E. Butler
Enemy Tend Most Us Careful
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction. Octavia E. Butler
People Differences Group Other Find Religious Direction Spit Generally Countries Where Aside Racial Certain Reasons Set
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 kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. Octavia E. Butler
Work People Own Ancestry Out Kind Threw My Own Emotional Feel Get Trying Stones Psychological Work Out Across Slavery
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 to first learn what you're writing about. Octavia E. Butler
You Science Writing First Rules Follow Totally About Open Learn Fantasy Really Wide Set
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. Octavia E. Butler
Savage Me Huge Get Away Conscience Things
The big talent is persistence. Octavia E. Butler
Persistence Big Talent
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. Octavia E. Butler
Hope Religion Relatives Suicide Alive Would Some Had Because Were Committed Heaven Hellish Companionship Lives Jesus Kept
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. Octavia E. Butler
Me People Whatever Other Bother Bothers Like Call Calling Doing Themselves Right
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't. Octavia E. Butler
You Young Think Way Easy Fact Writer Clear Sure Audience Making Renting Been Very In Fact Communicating Workshop
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it. Octavia E. Butler
Class Sports School Hopeless Rest Other Other Kids Kids Only Only Child Spite Adult Comfortable Because Taller Always Got Than Quiet Child Grades Short Different Size Even Awkward Earliest Shy
My characters hope for better lives. Octavia E. Butler
Hope Better Characters Lives
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it. Octavia E. Butler
Too Late Too Late Worry Out About Except Like Disaster Global Global Warming Looming How Warming Figure Adapt
Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head? Octavia E. Butler
Hurts Pain Head Delusional What If Just Just As Much Much Your Trauma Actual
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 of grim fantasy. Octavia E. Butler
You Science Way Out Kind Kindred Point Science Fiction Fiction Wanted Grim Note Fantasy
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. Octavia E. Butler
Problem Sometimes Problems Related Horror Genres Fantasy Illogical
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. Octavia E. Butler
Tell Knew Were Just Wanted Stories
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. Octavia E. Butler
Fact Like Got Baptist Conscience Early Raised
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. Octavia E. Butler
Good Attention Span Too Would Never Attention Scientist Been Short Span
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. Octavia E. Butler
Business Slow Long Slowly Write Writer Well Doing Very Even Novel
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. Octavia E. Butler
Science Way Totally About Open Science Fiction Conditional Fiction Thing Wide
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 and write about whatever I wanted to. Octavia E. Butler
Whatever Research Astronomy Able About More Write Geology Go Anthropology Wanted Much Fun Here
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 I would take that interest. Octavia E. Butler
Me Science Natural Writing Guide Would Take Had No-One Towards Science Fiction Going Stop Fiction Interest Really
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. Octavia E. Butler
You Science Walls Able Examining Open Attracted Because Science Fiction Were Condition Human Stopped Fiction Anything Human Condition Wide
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