With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it. Octavia E. Butler adaptdisasterfigure Change image and share on social
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. Octavia E. Butler begbuyfinger Change image and share on social
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically. Octavia E. Butler criticizeenthusiasticallylot Change image and share on social
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us. Octavia E. Butler bababelongcocker share on social
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do. Octavia E. Butler believedealgreat Change image and share on social
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it. Octavia E. Butler buymagazinemarket Change image and share on social
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy. Octavia E. Butler carefuldehumanizeenemy Change image and share on social
The big talent is persistence. Octavia E. Butler bigpersistencetalent Change image and share on social
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything. Octavia E. Butler anyplaceexaminefiction Change image and share on social
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 badlybewarehear Change image and share on social
