Octavia Butler Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  Octavia Butler

  Giving Up, Writing, Persistence

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.148, Seven Stories Press

• We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.

  Octavia Butler

  Stars, Fighting, Destiny

• We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

  Octavia Butler

  Death, Giving, Grove

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.71, Open Road Media

• Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

  Octavia Butler

  Giving, Different, Needs

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago”, p.417, Open Road Media

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