Connie Willis

“The perfect metaphor," he said, "looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is…

— Connie Willis

“I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.”

— Connie Willis

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement.”

— Connie Willis

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…

— Connie Willis

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's…

— Connie Willis

“What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett. "My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote…

— Connie Willis

“Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and…

— Connie Willis

“I’m not studying the heroes who lead navies—and armies—and win wars. I’m studying ordinary people who you wouldn’t expect to be heroic,…

— Connie Willis

“Will I ever see you again? No. Do I love you? Yes, for all time.”

— Connie Willis

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

— Connie Willis

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner…

— Connie Willis

“Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a…

— Connie Willis

“There are a hundred ways a man can bleed to death. And he can be pulled from the rubble of bitterness, of…

— Connie Willis

“They make you settle for second best." That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to…

— Connie Willis

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…

— Connie Willis

“Bigotry is one of the oldest and ugliest of trends, so persistent it only counts as a fad because the target keeps…

— Connie Willis

“The voices didn’t join in this time, as she hadn’t spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus.” — LEWIS…

— Connie Willis

It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

— Connie Willis

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I…

— Connie Willis

“Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC.”

— Connie Willis

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

— Connie Willis

“Do it on the radio.” —Educating Rita Saved”

— Connie Willis

There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of…

— Connie Willis

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

— Connie Willis

Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said.…

— Connie Willis