Octavia Butler Quotes About Science Fiction

• Me atraía la ciencia ficción porque era muy abierta. Podía hacer cualquier cosa, no había muros que te encerraran y no había ninguna condición humana que te impidiera examinar.

  Octavia Butler

  Muro, Ficción, Hem

• And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

  Octavia Butler

  Fiction, Way, Fantasy

• 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

  Writing, Fiction, Natural

• Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.

  Octavia Butler

  Stars, War, Writing

• It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.

  Octavia Butler

  Escribir, Pensar, Ocho

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

  Octavia Butler

  Reading, Writing, Fiction

• Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

  Octavia Butler

  Looks, Fiction, Noses

• The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

  Octavia Butler

  Fiction, Way, Conditional

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