Octavia Butler

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#just #knew #stories #tell #wanted

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

#bothers #call #calling #doing #like

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#fantasy #first #follow #learn #open

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#about #anthropology #astronomy #fun #geology

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#before #began #fiction #i #reading

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conscience #get #huge #i #me

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#genres #horror #illogical #problem #problems

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#different #i #leadership #more #pay