Connie Willis Quotes

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• Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working…
• If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.
• I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died…
• Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved…
• I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.
• I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a…
• I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.
• I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
• Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
• It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
• To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if…
• Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.
• I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.
• Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my…
• I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
• There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.
• The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly…
• Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?
• Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.
• The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have…

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