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" Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head? "
Octavia E. Butler
Trauma
Just
Pain
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" 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
Friends
People
Old
" At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it. "
Octavia E. Butler
Child
Short
Sports
" I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant. "
Octavia E. Butler
How
Intolerant
Kids
" 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
Kind
Reason
Because
" We are a naturally hierarchical species. "
Octavia E. Butler
Species
Naturally
Hierarchical
" I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you. "
Octavia E. Butler
Need
You
Society
" 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. "
Octavia E. Butler
Live
History
People
" The big talent is persistence. "
Octavia E. Butler
Big
Persistence
Talent
" 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
Know
Mean
Space
" Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. "
Octavia E. Butler
Peace
Progress
Think
" Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another. "
Octavia E. Butler
Start
Pain
People
" 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
More
Great
Race
" 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
Me
Mother
Typewriter
" The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life. "
Octavia E. Butler
Life
Better
Create
" The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through. "
Octavia E. Butler
See
Way
You
" Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. "
Octavia E. Butler
Inspirational
Create
Me
" As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work. "
Octavia E. Butler
Woman
Live
Think
" Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. "
Octavia E. Butler
Time
Destiny
Own
" 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
Hear
Say
See
" I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play. "
Octavia E. Butler
World
Long
Think
" If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? "
Octavia E. Butler
Genetic Engineering
Engineering
Would
" 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. "
Octavia E. Butler
Travel
Truth Is
People
" I had novels to write, so I wrote them. "
Octavia E. Butler
Write
Novels
Them
" Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything. "
Octavia E. Butler
Science Fiction
You
Science
" Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. "
Octavia E. Butler
Difficult
Me
People
" Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is. "
Octavia E. Butler
Science
Because
Go
" I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do. "
Octavia E. Butler
Good And Evil
Good
Evil
" Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it. "
Octavia E. Butler
Whatever
Will
Try
" I'm not pessimistic about much of anything. "
Octavia E. Butler
Anything
About
Much
" Science fiction is not formulaic. "
Octavia E. Butler
Science
Science Fiction
Fiction