Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one? Octavia Butler More Quotes by Octavia Butler More Quotes 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. Octavia Butler vampireghoulsstories I lost an arm on my last trip home. Octavia Butler armslastshome I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. Octavia Butler threefiftyyears In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway. Octavia Butler fortunepeopleyears The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments Octavia Butler inbreedinggroupsdifferences Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing. Octavia Butler beliefactiondoe Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about. Octavia Butler complaining 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 fantasywayfiction
