Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler

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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
- Work
- Real
- Done
I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Rachel Platten
- School
- High
- Song
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
- World
- Down
- Foot
When did you last have fun being dignified?

Kate Reardon
- Fun
- You
- Have Fun
The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

Yuri Lowenthal
- People
- Doing
- Animation
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

J. Cole
- Know
- Attention
- Care