Ellen Kushner

“The time of testing, and of playing, was over. This was the final duel for one of them. Now they were fighting…

— Ellen Kushner

“But I saw the pair of them, along with everyone else. Hard to miss. Him towering like a raggedy scarecrow in that…

— Ellen Kushner

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of…

— Ellen Kushner

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

— Ellen Kushner

A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of…

— Ellen Kushner

“I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.”

— Ellen Kushner

Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write.…

— Ellen Kushner

“There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie.”

— Ellen Kushner

Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's…

— Ellen Kushner

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a…

— Ellen Kushner

“Have you seen Marcus?" he asked his ugly friend. "Yes, he was stoping some people in the Violet Room from climbing the…

— Ellen Kushner

I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think…

— Ellen Kushner

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

— Ellen Kushner

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

— Ellen Kushner

“Blake Lost his temper. "But they didn't do anything to you, did they?" He inquired savagely. "When they heard your Southern accent…

— Ellen Kushner

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

— Ellen Kushner

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid…

— Ellen Kushner

“although he was at core a rotten being, no one could fault him for style.”

— Ellen Kushner

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

— Ellen Kushner

“I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can…

— Ellen Kushner

In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes…

— Ellen Kushner

“And Ferris had watched Alec go past him out of the door noted the bones...but he never would have connected that ragged…

— Ellen Kushner

“He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for…

— Ellen Kushner

“Richard knew he was fighting for his life, and he was terribly happy.”

— Ellen Kushner

Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop…

— Ellen Kushner