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“I have to write. I don't know what else to do. The others are asleep now, but it isn't dark. I'm on watch because I couldn't sleep if I tried. I'm jittery and crazed. I can't cry. I want to get up and just urn and run... Run away from everything. But there isn't any away. I have to write. There's nothing familiar left to me but the writing. God is Change. I hate God. I have to write.” — Octavia E. Butler

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I have to write. I don't know what else to do. The others are asleep now, but it isn't dark. I'm on watch because I couldn't sleep if I tried. I'm jittery and crazed. I can't cry. I want to get up and just urn and run... Run away from everything. But there isn't any away. I have to write. There's nothing familiar left to me but the writing. God is Change. I hate God. I have to write.
— Octavia E. Butler