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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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- “Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven…”Octavia E. Butler
- “Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?”Octavia E. Butler
- “You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal r…”Octavia E. Butler
- “I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist,…”Octavia E. Butler
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- “In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I…”Natalie Goldberg
- “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”Bill Watterson
- “One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realiz…”Samuel R. Delany
Books: more sayings
- “That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the i…”Ariel Gore
- “In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I…”Natalie Goldberg
- “I've always been an enormous fan of comic books and anything that captures the real in a surreal environment.”Graham Linehan
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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