Octavia E. Butler Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I had novels to write, so I wrote them.”

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

“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.”

“I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.”

“I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.”

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

“My characters hope for better lives.”

“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.”

“Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.”

“Science fiction is not formulaic.”