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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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- “I'm very happy alone.”Octavia E. Butler
- “No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.”Octavia E. Butler
- “Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions.Do that & they…”Octavia E. Butler
- “Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelli…”Octavia E. Butler
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- “We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty f…”Stanisław Lem
- “People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them.…”Tad Williams
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- “He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People c…”Sarah Addison Allen
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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