Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
