Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler
Octavia Estelle Butlerwas an American science fiction writer. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the "Genius Grant."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 June 1947
CityPasadena, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Octavia Butler quotes about
loneliness i-realized knows
...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
writing stories
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
liars lying tyrants
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
running hurt past
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
powerful book reality
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
years people fortune
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
pain hypocrite sleep
Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
growing-up anxiety lust
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
giving definitions different
Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
becoming sometimes slave
Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
fool opportunist forethought
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
tired thinking climbing
I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
writing rejection painful
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
children ideas leaving
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.