Laura Anne 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

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'. — Tracy Chevalier

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

If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling. — Jerry Seinfeld

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

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

Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

They (TVXQ) really are the perfect sunbaes. — G-Dragon

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

The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don't understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the United States have fled from wars - many of which this country has had a hand in. Although — Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that. — Laura Dern

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

Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric. — Anne Rice

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

Through my willingness to train every day and to dig deep in the after-class ukemi sessions, over time I earned the respect and friendship of my training partners, who were mostly Japanese men sincerely surprised to find themselves training with an American woman. — Linda Holiday

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist. — Lesley-Anne Down

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

She had no idea, really, what it meant to see a man's arm ripped out by the root, to see a head torn off a neck. She had no idea. We human beings live perpetually insulated from the horrors that happen all around us. No matter what she'd suffered, she had not witnessed the vicious ugliness of that kind of death. No, it had to be unreal to her, even Laura who had endured so much. — Anne Rice