Laura Anne Gilman Quotes & Sayings

The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power. — Laura Anne Gilman

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. — Laura Anne Gilman

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect. — Laura Anne Gilman

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

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

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. — Laura Anne Gilman

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere. — Laura Anne Gilman

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook. — Laura Anne Gilman

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

Call it not paranoia, but caution. — Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history. — Laura Anne Gilman

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. — Laura Anne Gilman

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

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

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. — Laura Anne Gilman

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered. — Laura Anne Gilman

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs. — Laura Anne Gilman

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. — Laura Anne Gilman

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. — Laura Anne Gilman