Connie Willis

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

— Connie Willis

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” —Monty Python’s Flying Circus”

— Connie Willis

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

— Connie Willis

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

— Connie Willis

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

— Connie Willis

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

— Connie Willis

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

— Connie Willis

“Ashes to ashes. Dust to nonsignificance.”

— Connie Willis

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

— Connie Willis

“Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.”

— Connie Willis

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the…

— Connie Willis

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

— Connie Willis

“Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.”

— Connie Willis

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

— Connie Willis

“I don't know who started the myth that sheep are fluffy and white. They were more the color of an old mop…

— Connie Willis

People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that…

— Connie Willis

TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians…

— Connie Willis

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most…

— Connie Willis

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them…

— Connie Willis

“Show tunes are great. Stephen Sondheim. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Wicked. Rent. The Music Man. Almost any musical will do. Except Cats.” “Why?…

— Connie Willis

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” —ANTOINE…

— Connie Willis

“She watched him a while longer and then shut her eyes again. And even though she knew her hand was tucked beneath…

— 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

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And…

— Connie Willis

“Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of…

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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

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

— Connie Willis

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…

— Connie Willis

“But if she'd come then, she would never have properly appreciated it. She'd have seen the happy crowds and the Union Jacks…

— Connie Willis

“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere…

— 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

A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of.…

— Connie Willis

“There’s no need to say anything to Mr. Turing. I was the one who wasn’t watching where I was going” “You were…

— Connie Willis

“We live in hope that the good we do here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. We also hope to win…

— 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

“She had been wrong in thinking Christ had been called up against his will to fight in a war. He didn't look…

— Connie Willis

“Cyril had staked out his claim and refused to move. "Move over!" I said, freeing one hand from holding the cat to…

— Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

— Connie Willis

“It cannot rain but it pours.” —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh,”

— Connie Willis

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

— Connie Willis