Octavia Butler
Related I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me. JAMES SHULER PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA KAREN JOY FOWLER CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would ca... BRUCE ROBINSON RITA RUDNER KAREN JOY FOWLER ALICE SEBOLD VICTORIA PENDLETON Coach (Greg Williams) has been telling me that I have to be more aggressive. That was the time to do... KADIE RIVERIN DREAMA WALKER ASPEN MATIS AMY TAN I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela... EVAN GLODELL When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what... TAYLOR WILSON I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me goin... CARLOS PENA, JR. I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. ... KATE BUSH No one ever said - stop encouraging me. I can't take it anymore! GRANT FAIRLEY EDDIE VAN HALEN What I'm experiencing right now is relief. When I read Rob [Bowman]'s liner notes, I felt, 'He's say... BETTYE LAVETTE I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.ELIZABETH EULBERG Each year, they tried to fit you for a new one. That was a no-no for me, ... To me, it was just like... ERIC HILL OCTAVIA BUTLER OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I felt a hard hit in my back. I didn't know I'd get tackled, but no one was going to take the ball f... JOEY SEARLE On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing t... CARLA GALLO It really bugs me because those guys had a two-lap lead and there was no reason to take any chances.... DARREN LAW Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guid... FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI No-one can take that away from me anymore. KIM CLIJSTERS The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pic... BUZZ OSBORNE ITALO CALVINO KURT VONNEGUT AARON SWARTZ I was so broke. I was just trying to keep it going, keep the band going and writing all the time. ..... CHARLIE SEXTON Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing... ALEX NEWELL JACK OSBOURNE GERTRUDE STEIN I was really devastated. I had planned on going to the hospital that day to visit my daughter, and w... GEORGE LENNOX CHRISTINA AGUILERA DON DELILLO FAY WRAY FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY DOUGLAS ADAMS That was the one that really upset me. ANGELICA DIAZ And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each o... WALIDAH IMARISHA CAT DEELEY ASPEN MATIS Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the ... GEORGE MURRAY He didn't want to get me away from the way I throw because I had deception coming in, we didn't want... B.J. RYAN ERYKAH BADU I was on a nostalgia trip for that one. I was in a really happy kind of space. That one just felt li... CHLOE DAY No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly. SRI SATHYA SAI BABA JIM CARREY Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.'... MARY HALVORSON I remember people saying that they brought cousins or people to the set and they had no idea that wa... AMANDA BYNES CHRISTINA ENGELA Guys get frustrated like Frankie did, and I understand that, ... If it had taken place out of sight,... ADRIAN BELTRE When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction.... MICHELLE FORBES The market was getting extended. It's natural that it would stop to take a breather. BILL HORNBARGER I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historic... CANDACE CAMP KARAN JOHAR The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture. ERIC CHURCH GEORGE FOREMAN Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.... CARLY FIORINA Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel th... ROBERT REED ALLY CARTER Nothing -- I mean nothing -- and no-one -- I mean no-one -- will stop me going through to the end, a... NICOLAS SARKOZY I asked God to lead me to right while I follow. I had no idea that he would lead me to right through... SUSIE L HILL KAZUO ISHIGURO WILLIAM GREEN It was pretty tough. I had no one to practice with, and it was just Coach beating up on me. I was th... KYLE ZIGELSKY It was really amazing no one else was involved. COMMANDER LEE VANCE People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller," and it would really aggravat... ALAN RUCK ROBERT BENCHLEY ROBERT BENCHLEY ROBERT BENCHLEY CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE No one can stop me from talking about my movie. ABEL FERRARA HENRY KISSINGER HENRY KISSINGER I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point... ADAM OATES Bill Howard tried his best to keep it from happening. There was really no one to blame. BOB REED It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind a... BARRY CRYER The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I h... TAB HUNTER PATRICK NESS PRISCILLA PRESLEY The guards had to work hard to get me the ball. I feel like no one can stop me but me. When I'm in a... EVELYN LEWIS JIM BUTCHER What I really wanted to do was paint surfboards with Paint Pens, but no company would let me. It was... DREW BROPHY J.P. DELANEY ALBERT EINSTEIN I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become ... JOSEPH HAYDN ROBERT BENCHLEY ROBERT BENCHLEY ANONYMOUS JACK OSBOURNE My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n... ALAN GARNER BOB MARLEY No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my je... TELYSHIA ADAMS For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by h... RACHEL HARTMAN
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I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself. 
Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as ... 
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa... 
It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was 
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it. 
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. ... 
One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny,... 
I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going t... 
She told me that my rape was not my fault, that I should feel no shame, that – simple as it may so... 
I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I h... 
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one cou... 
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... 
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... 
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered t... 
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wro... 
Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol... 
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like ... 
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is... 
It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. B... 
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular ex... 
The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one t... 
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. ... 
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o... 
I could get up to a lot of mischief and no one would know it was me 
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance ... 
I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was fre... 
Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat.
I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like m... 
I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me ... 
It was my scientific opinion that Zach was one of those people who used his intelligence to make sur... 
I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. An... 
The whole time my mindset was always to try and get better in spite of what was going on, and in spi... 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I coudn't give it up beca... 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec... 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec... 
A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was no... 
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop... 
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop ... 
The Third Tale
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that... 
Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"
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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is... 
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ... 
yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no on... 
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. 
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. 
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach. 
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b... 
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. 
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. 
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