“Always know what they want to hear - not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along.” — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“She liked time at the edges of things -- the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“Hild fetched a lump of grey salt for Mildburh and mortar and pestle to crush it in. She loved the gritty crunch and thump… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period.… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it. — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“The fact they could check becomes the prophecy they must believe.” — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“Marghe learned of linn cloud, the waterfall cloud in multilayers which brought very heavy rain; of n’gus, queen daggerhorn sky—stately and slow-moving like the… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
