Octavia Butler Stories Quotations

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

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 just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.