Writing Quote by Octavia E. Butler: Writing is One of the Few Professions in Which You Can Psychoanalyse Yourself

"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."
 

—  Octavia E. Butler 

(June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006)

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction author. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became in 1995 the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. After her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Octavia E. Butler: Writing Good Stuff

"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."
 

—  Octavia E. Butler 

(June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006)

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction author. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became in 1995 the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. After her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Wikipedia

Octavia Estelle Butler books at Amazon