All Connie Willis Quotes
- When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey… African
- One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. Carried
- People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on… Bought
- I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's… Began
- TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen… Actors
- He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready… Balance
- Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her,… Godfrey
- No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the… Answering
- Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit… Along
- And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years. Hundred
- A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design… All
- One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. Libraries
- The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. Impossible
- You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you… Ah
- That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us… Assign
- And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. Author
- It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow… Appearance
- Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the… Almost Anything
- Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded… Act