162 Quotes by Octavia Butler

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you,

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

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.

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.