Dystopian Author Quotes

Octavia Butler Most of us don’t have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I’m […]

Octavia Butler I’m me, and I’m here, and I’m writing.

Octavia Butler The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn’t manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself […]

Octavia Butler Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to […]

Octavia Butler I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live […]

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 […]

Octavia Butler Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you’re hurt, you’re really on your own. You’re alone, and there’s no one to […]

Octavia Butler I lost an arm on my last trip home.

Octavia Butler 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.