Octavia Butler'dan yazmak isteyenlere tavsiyeler:
Writing for publication may be both the easiest and the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Learning the rules—if they can be called rules—is the easy part. Following them, turning them into regular habits, is an ongoing struggle. Here are the rules:
1. Read. Read about the art, the craft, and the business of writing. Read the kind of work you’d like
Seven Stories Press - Furor Scribendi (Yazma Çılgınlığı) adlı denemesinden.Kitabı okudu
Go with your instincts and live as you want !
Hayat benim hayatım, ne istersem yaparım!
Sayfa 108 - İthaki Yayınları 3. Baskı, 2019
The Power of Words
You, because, free, instantly, and new, these are the most powerful words in the English language. “You,” is an important word, because people love hearing about themselves. Listen to a 1-3-year-old talk next time you’re around them. “Me,” and “mine,” are likely going to be a huge part of their vocabulary. It might even be the
"When you want to replace mistakes with right actions in life, remember this:
The first revolution one must make is within oneself.
Yes, this is the foremost and most important revolution.
Battling for an idea without having a personal opinion, without knowing what you want from life and from people is one of the most dangerous things.
Do not
''I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it. I’ve tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them? Nevertheless it hurts me to tell it over, over again. Once was enough: wasn’t once enough for me at the time? But I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in Heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they’re not here. By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you, I believe you’re there, I believe you into being. Because I’m telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.''
Konuyla ilgilenenler ve kitapla ilgili fikir sahibi olmak isteyenler için Alfred R. Mele'nin "Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will" kitabından aldığım not ve alıntıları ekliyorum.
There are two main scientific arguments today against the existence of free will. One comes from neurosci-ence. Its basic claim is that all our decisions