One of my favorite websites For Harriet reminded me, via a Facebook feed scroll, that yesterday was the birthday of the late Sci-Fi writer Octavia Butler.
I was part of a committee that brought the award-winning and highly acclaimed author of Kindred to come to my alma mater the University of Maryland when I was in college. As a journalism major, I was quite excited to meet her in person and hear this great pioneer and revolutionary’s words in person.
So when I saw this flier and quote the website shared among its followers, I became inspired to research some of the other great words that came from Butler, including much from a 2002 talk she gave at UCLA.
And as a person who recently returned to daily writing after a full career as a lawyer, I am happy to share some of Butler’s other inspirational words to other writers out there. Enjoy!
On Importance of Daily Writing
On Labels
On Fighting Writers’ Block
On Kindness and Love
On Telling Difficult Stories
On Writing Truths
On Being a Friend
On Self-Control during Anger
On Value to being a Writer
On Identity & Trusting Instincts
On Persistence
On Ignorance
On Learning from Failure
On Accepting help & Giving it
On Drive
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