"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."
― Octavia Butler
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More From Octavia Butler
- "What I’m working on now – I’m back to fantasy, although considering that it’s me, I’m turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It’s a vampire story – but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn’t become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way."
- "I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership."
- "I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time."
More In Science
- "This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It’s, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television."― Dan Rather
- "In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It’s so schizophrenic."― Jonathan Carroll
- "A satellite has no conscience."― Edward R. Murrow