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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 learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.”Octavia E. Butler
- “Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing…”Octavia E. Butler
- “I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begg…”Octavia E. Butler
- “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”Octavia E. Butler
Astronomy: more sayings
- “Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.”Paracelsus
- “The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Ele…”John Pipkin
- “I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I…”C. JoyBell C.
Science Fiction: more sayings
- “She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of t…”Michelle O'Leary
- “I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few ne…”G.S. Jennsen
- “Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we’re talking now, not factuality but possibility.”Hal Duncan
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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