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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
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility. Octavia E. Butler
Good People Writing Our Worry Definitely Possibility Inside About Outside Poke Most Comfortable Still Being Noses While Us Shot
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. Octavia E. Butler
Future Humanity People Will Past Think Possibilities Something Like Always Still Doing Lot Done Human Different Human Beings Granted Beings
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. Octavia E. Butler
Me Science Become Back Considering Way Bit Kind Vampire Vampires Born Someone Although Because Were Story Them Fantasy Turning Working Now Biological
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you. Octavia E. Butler
You People Think Society Like Against Really Need
A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time. Octavia E. Butler
Time Food Long Long Time Lasts Potatoes Sack
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. Octavia E. Butler
Me People Writing Difficult Has-Been Write Like Been Little Who Fun
I had novels to write, so I wrote them. Octavia E. Butler
Write Had Wrote Them Novels
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through. Octavia E. Butler
Life You Will Way Minor See About Through Write Cheaper Major Dealing Always Lot Tragedies Than Get Just Psychiatrists Story Heck Compensation
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision. Octavia E. Butler
Courage People Vision Stronger Think John John Kerry More Ideals Clinton Than Bill Bill Clinton Need Kerry
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 in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life. Octavia E. Butler
Life Writing Better Will Real Life Our Our Lives Characters About Know Well Real Exist Than Human Order Fiction Anyone Lovely Us Create Ever Lives Thing Things Bring Two
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 it. Octavia E. Butler
Space Market Magazines Know Opera Because How How Much Just Just Because Movies Mean Much Buying
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically. Octavia E. Butler
You Writing Respond Criticized Enthusiastically Like Lot Getting Just Your Skinned
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us. Octavia E. Butler
People Dog Mother Enemies Old First He Between Named Know House Got Were Nor Years Friends Being Them Us Worked Lived Belonged
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another. Octavia E. Butler
People Thought Pain Several Pleasure Out Some About Somehow Civilization Shared Idea Another Felt Caused Years Years Ago Get Which Might Mileage Novel Start
Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that. Octavia E. Butler
People Men Guess Kind Vampires Some Feeding Most Because Discovered Off Reason Dracula
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. Octavia E. Butler
Religion Everywhere Without Human Acknowledge Whether Societies
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