339 Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.