Top 18 Laura Anne Gilman Quotes
#1. Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
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#3. I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.
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#4. You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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#5. A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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#6. Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
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#7. I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.
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#8. Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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#9. Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.
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#10. I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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#11. When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
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#12. The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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#14. Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
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#15. I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.
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#16. The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
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#17. Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
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#18. I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.
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