Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

Topics

ScienceTimeWritingReadingFiction

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

Jim Lehrer

JournalismReportingPart

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

Jerrod Carmichael

LoveArtResponsibilityThinkPush

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

SmallThreeEuropeOutStartedSix

The underdog status suits me just fine.

Michael Bisping

MeUnderdogSuitsStatusFineJust

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

Sid Waddell

ComebackGreatestSince

One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove.

Rob Manuel

NightNameStreetSpecialOutShirt

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

Rupert Holmes

MindComedyFindWayTryKnowing

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

Michele Bachmann

SometimesTeachersMostMarvelous

I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

Mo Rocca

FunnyCoolThinkKindWayMean

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Loretta Lynn

MusicPeopleLookCountryKindTell

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

Judith Rossner

MyselfSupportWritingOldYears

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?

Jay Kay

WorkHomeBeautifulRiverMindMe

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