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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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- “Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelli…”Octavia E. Butler
- “At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable w…”Octavia E. Butler
- “Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, c…”Octavia E. Butler
- “The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our…”Octavia E. Butler
Explore Resentment
- “I can't afford to have resentment. I can't afford to be angry. I can't afford these things spiritually or phy…”Bill Ward
- “... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable…”Bret Easton Ellis
- “Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained,…”Dionne Warwick
Explore Trust
- “Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season a…”Diane Ackerman
- “The days of the pushy salesmen and self-serving narcissists are over. That type of behavior quickly alienates…”Susan C. Young
- “I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.”Eleanor Tomlinson
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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