Sarah Zettel Quotes

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• Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted…
• I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which…
• When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
• Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
• As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I…
• All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System…
• Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
• First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there?…
• I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my…
• Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of…
• I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
• I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does…
• I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and…
• I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work…
• I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.
• I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
• I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are…
• Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the…
• Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
• The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

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