booknotes: Conseula Francis, Conversations with Octavia Butler

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18 - When I was in my teens, a group of us used to talk about our hopes and dreams, and someone would always ask, "If you could do anything you wanted to do, no holds barred, what would you do?" I'd answer that I wanted to live forever and breed people [...]

87 - I have dozens and dozens of specialized dictionaries covering everything form geography to anthropology to psychiatry to religion.

92 - By the way, one of the ways I get ideas is to look through books of quotations. I'm bound to find in the book of quotations -- the longer the better -- something with which I violently disagree.

111 - (creation of community in her life)

122 - The name of the new text is Mortal Words, which takes an epistolary form, daily letters written by a woman in her ninety-ninth year, the last written on her hundredth birthday. [not published]

134 - "a forty-eight-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer."

221 - Butler: So that's why my story is from the point of view of the first black female vampire. Interviewer: From Egypt? Butler: No, from Seattle.

Comments

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

Haha I recognize "Fledgling" in the last comment.

[(Anonymous)]

The name of the new text is Mortal Words, which takes an epistolary form, daily letters written by a woman in her ninety-ninth year, the last written on her hundredth birthday. [not published]

Oh!

[eub.livejournal.com]

At least, not from what I could find. I read the description and was hoping for it, too.