Holly Lisle

“Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada’s search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they…

— Holly Lisle

“May we see our paths clearly, may we follow them truly, and may the roads we walk always bring us back together…

— Holly Lisle

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being…

— Holly Lisle

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

— Holly Lisle

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better…

— Holly Lisle

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

— Holly Lisle

Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in…

— Holly Lisle

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

— Holly Lisle

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

— Holly Lisle

“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us…

— Holly Lisle

“Race doesn't exist. Skin color exists. Hair and eye color are real. Body type varies from individual to individual, as does tooth…

— Holly Lisle

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects…

— Holly Lisle

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have…

— Holly Lisle

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

— Holly Lisle

“The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.”

— Holly Lisle

“And let’s debunk one bit of writer myth while we’re here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a…

— Holly Lisle

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would…

— Holly Lisle

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and…

— Holly Lisle

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to…

— Holly Lisle

“Dan had begun working his way around the room starting at the food wall. "Here's a little wheel to twist" he said,…

— Holly Lisle

“Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his…

— Holly Lisle

“I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.”

— Holly Lisle

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten…

— Holly Lisle

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

— Holly Lisle

“How did you do it?" he wanted to know. "Enchanted arrows? Spell of exploding flesh? Rain of fire? No, not that. The…

— Holly Lisle