Octavia Butler Quotes

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.
Octavia Butler

Human, Play, Around

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.
Octavia Butler

Alone, Hurt, Past

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Octavia Butler

Whatever, Themselves, Call

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
Octavia Butler

Science, Both, Nose

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
Octavia Butler

Science, Happy, Interest

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

Science, Open, Fiction

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.
Octavia Butler

Writing, Wanted, Write

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.
Octavia Butler

Book, Different, Country

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 22, 1947

Died: February 24, 2006

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