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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 found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could al…”Octavia E. Butler
- “As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, be…”Octavia E. Butler
- “The big talent is persistence.”Octavia E. Butler
- “I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get…”Octavia E. Butler
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- “When I write, there's always an image, sometimes a color attached to what's being created.”Bill Ward
- “And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provok…”Thomas More
- “Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part o…”John Scalzi
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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