It’s one of the things that I try to keep young writers from thinking, that you have to wait, that it’s all luck, lightning will strike and then you’ll have a wonderful bestseller. So I think it’s like the old idea that fortune favors the prepared mind. If you’ve developed the habit of paying attention to the things that happen around you and to you, then, yeah, you’ll get hit by lightning. -- Octavia Butler
Excellent article about the act of writing.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/20/octavia-butler-advice-on-writing/
