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Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Tell Just Knew Stories Wanted Were

I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'

Melissa McCarthy

Call Midwife Obsessed

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

Book Story Never Classic Over Month

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Stephen Hawking

Questions Philosophy Why Dead Here

Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'

Work Birthday People Me You Said

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.

Nice Texture Flavor Firm Catfish

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

Morning Day Sleep Practice Care Go

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

Cancer Painful Rather Life-Changing

In 1995 I decided to stop eating meat. I could never really quite explain why; I think it was something to do with watching a documentary where they cooked a cat and partly because I had a really crap job working for Wolves Poly and felt my life was slipping away. It definitely wasn't anything to do with any 'vegetarian month'.

Life Job Wolves Eating Think Stop

The style I have in judo is very unique... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way.

Good Style Unique Boxing Kind Way

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

Family School Laugh More Kid Always

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

Know Hopeless Write Up Critic Who

I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

Style Ride Balance Horse Chair You

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