Laura Anne Gilman Quotes

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.

You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

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.

In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

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.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.

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.

Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place
just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.