162 Quotes by Octavia Butler

Belief initiates and guides action – or it does nothing.

There’s no narcotic like exhaustion.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write – every day, no excuses. It’s so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they’d rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

Civilization is the way one’s own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

I wasn’t trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

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.

Souls! When have you seen your own soul – that you’re so certain you have one?

Ignorance protects itself, and protected, ignorance grows.