I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrot... -Octavia E. Butler

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

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Octavia E. Butler Quotes to Explore

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed ...
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never ab...
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other...
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure....
A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time....
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into the...
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will al...
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision....
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they proba...
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not....

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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives u...
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science c...
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how y...
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the...
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful....
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of ...
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them....
If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It ...
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic....
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second...