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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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- “What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind…”Octavia E. Butler
- “I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.”Octavia E. Butler
- “People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing…”Octavia E. Butler
- “I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean maga…”Octavia E. Butler
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- “Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and tough decisions, in order to achieve something bigger.”Saad Salman
- “The flesh,' as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. Th…”Thomas Howard
- “The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of…”Ibrahim Babangida
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- “In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered s…”Tanya Saracho
- “I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.”Christy Hall
- “Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the…”Steven Pressfield
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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