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Octavia Butler Biography

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, in 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

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It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it. . . . I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.

Eight, Love, Program, Thinking, Writing

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

Writing

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

Daddy, Help, Hurt, Mommy, Past, Running

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

Communicating, Facts, Think, Thinking, Way, Writer

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

Needs, Persistence, Story, Talent, Writer, Writing

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.

Ambition, Oil And Water, Feminist, Combination, Insecurity, Pessimist

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

Attention, Scientist, Span, Too Short

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Behavior, Book, Consequence, Consequences, God, Living

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

Comfortable, People, Worry, Writing

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

Capable, Climbing, Confidence, Permit

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.

Behaved, Dance, Hand, Human, Inspirational, Moving

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

Women, Hands, People, Narrow, Misused, Straight

Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.

Dulling, Long, Process, Slavery

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

Crazy, Enough, Keep, Spirit, Trying

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

Exhaustion, Like, Narcotic, Narcotics

Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free. " I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

Bag, Hypocrite, Pain, People, Sleep, Stay

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.

Expects, Fifty, Remember, Someday, Three, Years

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

Anxiety, Growing Up, Lust, Part, Unreasoning

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

Children, Criminal, Idea, Ideas, Leaving

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

Ease, Eases, Fear, Kindness, Love

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