"I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership." — Octavia E. 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.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

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

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.