Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Octavia E. Butler Quotes
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
4831I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
1066 You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
2690 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.
3518 Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.
2968 In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.
2510 All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
is Change.
4856 God is Change.
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2371 There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
2624 Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.
2465 It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.
2150 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.
1388 All that you touch, you change. All that you change,
changes you.
1524 Kindness eases change
Love quiets fear
4449 Power came the way a child came - with agony.
2543 Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story.
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