Top 50 Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

About Octavia E. Butler

These are some quotes by American author Octavia E. Butler Writer, who lived between June 22, 1947 and February 24, 2006.

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

Octavia E. Butler

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

Octavia E. Butler

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

Octavia E. Butler

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

Octavia E. Butler

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction is not formulaic.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

Octavia E. Butler

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

Octavia E. Butler

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

Octavia E. Butler

How dull it is to have people defining you.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

Octavia E. Butler

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Octavia E. Butler

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