{"author":"Octavia E. Butler","author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler","total_quotes":52,"quotes":[{"text":"It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["change","fear","teaching"],"id":4681,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["novels","science-fiction"],"id":9992,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["time"],"id":15177,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"Let them see that you trust them \u0026 let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions.Do that \u0026 they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, \u0026 after a while you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, \u0026 stifling their resentment.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["control","relationships"],"id":48935,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["identity"],"id":57154,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["fantasy","process","science-fiction","writing"],"id":60682,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"Power came the way a child came -- with agony.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["magic","octavia-e-butler","power","wild-seed"],"id":67566,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["heaven","hell","hell-on-earth","octavia-e-butler"],"id":70996,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"Consider--We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["life","potential","purpose"],"id":78219,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["science-fiction"],"id":90921,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}