#act

Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#already #classes #day #doing #feedback

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#been #clear #communicating #easy #fact

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conscience #early #fact #got #i

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#characters #ignorance #pride #truest #vanity

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#controversy #dispute #exact #gains #most

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#same #silence #tact #thing

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conscious #less #lives #mainly #mould

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#chisel #complete #life #life is a #mold

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christian religion #doubted #equally #general #hearing

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#figure #go #i #irish #name