American - Writer | June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
Octavia E. Butler
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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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.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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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.
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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.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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