Octavia Butler Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  Octavia Butler

  Ambition, Oil And Water, Feminist

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• The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

  Octavia Butler

  Fiction, Way, Conditional

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

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  Reading, Writing, Fiction

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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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• On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Moving

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• I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

  Octavia Butler

  Attention, Too Short, Scientist

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