Octavia E. Butler Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.”

“I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.”

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

“Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.”

“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.”

“I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.”

“How dull it is to have people defining you.”

“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.”