Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when youre hurt, youre really on your own. Youre alone, and theres no one to help you. – Octavia Butler
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. – Octavia Butler
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. – Octavia Butler
What Im working on now – Im back to fantasy, although considering that its me, Im turning it into a kind of science fantasy. Its a vampire story – but my vampires are biological vampires. They didnt become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way. – Octavia Butler