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About Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction and speculative fiction author
Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author. She won the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards, and in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Her work helped define modern speculative fiction, and she is especially known for writing that brought discipline and force to the genre. The record here shows 113 quotes from her.
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- “Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone,…”Octavia E. Butler
- “Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we…”Octavia E. Butler
- “I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.”Octavia E. Butler
- “Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.”Octavia E. Butler
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- “I was not performing or recording in the last trimester of my pregnancy but I was working from home, planning…”Tulsi Kumar
- “During my pregnancy, I didn't train at all. I wanted to take advantage of those nine months and enjoy the tim…”Mackenzie Dern
- “If God annihilates or deflects or creates a unit of matter, He has created a new situation at that point. Imm…”C.S. Lewis
Writing: more sayings
- “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”Thomas Mann
- “There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tr…”Kate Braverman
- “As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or…”John Hodgman
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Books by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred
1979
Fledgling
2005
Parable of the Sower
1993
Parable of the Talents
1998
Adulthood Rites
1988