Top 50 Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

I'm very happy alone.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?

Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

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

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

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.