Octavia Butler Quotes - Page 5

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• Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

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  Dad, Vote, Politician

  Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

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  Years, Three, Fifty

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• The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments

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  Differences, Inbreeding, Groups

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

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  Writing, Novel, Wells

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• But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

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  Genre Is, Fantasy, Problem

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• The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

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  Destiny, Community, Essentials

  Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.310, Open Road Media

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• I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

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  Ambition, Oil And Water, Feminist

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• Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about.

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  Complaining

  Octavia Butler (2004). “Kindred”, p.81, Beacon Press

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• Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

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  Class, People, Feedback

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• Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

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  Fun, Writing, Research

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