Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler
Octavia Estelle Butlerwas an American science fiction writer. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the "Genius Grant."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 June 1947
CityPasadena, CA
CountryUnited States of America
facts baptists raised
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
differences groups different
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
who-i-am brain
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
years fifty three
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.
attitude writing people
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
beauty horror combination
You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
confidence climbing permit
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
ignorance quails protect
Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
writing stories i-can
...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.
genre-is fantasy horror
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
stars war writing
Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.
writing rejection painful
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
giving definitions different
Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
becoming sometimes slave
Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.