LAURA ANNE GILMAN

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

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.