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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
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
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
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
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
