When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage. — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one.… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.” — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.” — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“Fall in love with heart, not head, to trouble you’re led. Fall in love with heart and mind, then true love you’ll find.” — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
