Teresa Nielsen Hayden

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale:…

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us…

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll…

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when…

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden