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All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. — Constantin Stanislavski

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them. — Octavia E. Butler

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically. — Octavia E. Butler

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler

Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story. — Octavia E. Butler

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

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

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. — Horace

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

I can write my own stories and I can write myself in. — Octavia Butler

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. — Octavia E. Butler

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. — Octavia E. Butler

Paper is more patient than people. — Anne Frank

Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me. — Octavia E. Butler

China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations. — Stephen Covey

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father. — Angelina Jolie

Even now, even as she faced a lifetime with him, she thought of her sisters. She was legions too good for him. — Sarah MacLean

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing. — Octavia Butler

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. — Octavia E. Butler

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing, — Octavia Butler

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking. — Octavia E. Butler

Thus the time we are given is not brief, but we make it so. We do not lack time; on the contrary, there is so much of it that we waste an awful lot. — Seneca.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing. — Gautama Buddha

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it. — Karen Joy Fowler

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away. — Ariel Gore

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart. — Dan Ellis

Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever. — Arthur C. Clarke