Kelly Link

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it…

— Kelly Link

In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools.…

— Kelly Link

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like…

— Kelly Link

“When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works…

— Kelly Link

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you…

— Kelly Link

Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking…

— Kelly Link

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties…

— Kelly Link

“Tell me which you could sooner do without, love or water.” “What do you mean?” “I mean, could you live without love,…

— Kelly Link

You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman…

— Kelly Link

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's…

— Kelly Link

“If you were to say a witch's chess set instead of a witch's family , there would be some truth in that.…

— Kelly Link

“Hildy has resigned herself to this, that life is a series of sudden disappearences, leavetakings without the proper good-byes. Someday she too…

— Kelly Link

“Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger...Now…

— Kelly Link

I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for…

— Kelly Link

“This is the list you carry in your pocket, of the things you plan to say to Kay, when you find him,…

— Kelly Link

Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be…

— Kelly Link

“Jeremy is an optimist. Maybe there's something good on TV. He settles down with the remote control on one of his father's…

— Kelly Link

You should never poison a witch.

— Kelly Link

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

— Kelly Link

“Even when your eyes are closed, it feels black. As black as black ever gets, like if you touch it, your hand…

— Kelly Link

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

— Kelly Link

I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to…

— Kelly Link

“The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an asshole. That's the first rule of retail.”

— Kelly Link

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

— Kelly Link

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

— Kelly Link