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Octavia Butler

"I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time."

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Donna Grant

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

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Donna Grant

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

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Donna Grant

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

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Donna Grant

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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Donna Grant

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

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Donna Grant

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

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Donna Grant

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

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Donna Grant

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

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Donna Grant

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

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Octavia Butler
"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."

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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 help you."

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Octavia Butler
"I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early."

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Octavia Butler
"Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day."

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Octavia Butler
"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."

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Octavia Butler
"And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing."

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Octavia Butler
"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 always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities."

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Octavia Butler
"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."

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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."

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Octavia Butler
"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 probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish."

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