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" Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. "
Octavia E. Butler
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Me
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" 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. "
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Hear
Say
See
" I'm very happy alone. "
Octavia E. Butler
Happy
Alone
Very
" 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
" 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. "
Octavia E. Butler
Group
People
Differences
" 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
" I had novels to write, so I wrote them. "
Octavia E. Butler
Write
Novels
Them
" 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
" Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. "
Octavia E. Butler
Inspirational
Create
Me
" Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce. "
Octavia E. Butler
Black
Perception
Science
" 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
" 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
" I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision. "
Octavia E. Butler
Courage
People
Stronger
" 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
" 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
" 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
" When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away. "
Octavia E. Butler
Alone
Animal
Eyes
" Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world. "
Octavia E. Butler
Bullying
Racism
Simple
" I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?' "
Octavia E. Butler
Woman
Science
Children
" Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically. "
Octavia E. Butler
Your
You
Writing
" 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
Like
Adapt
Global Warming
" Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it. "
Octavia E. Butler
Whatever
Will
Try
" My characters hope for better lives. "
Octavia E. Butler
Lives
Better
Characters
" 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
" Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor. "
Octavia E. Butler
Many
Factor
Get
" 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 learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant. "
Octavia E. Butler
How
Intolerant
Kids
" Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. "
Octavia E. Butler
Human
Acknowledge
Religion
" 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
" 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
" We are a naturally hierarchical species. "
Octavia E. Butler
Species
Naturally
Hierarchical