Agency Quote by Nathan Lowell

Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were…

— Roger Zelazny

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as…

— Charles Stross

I had - and continued to have - great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me that I…

— Alastair Reynolds

I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in…

— Jake Heggie

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

“Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about such differences.…

— George R.R. Martin

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still…

— Tod Machover

It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same…

— Philip Glass

I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I even wrote…

— Stephen Schwartz

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera…

— Daniel Handler

Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love…

— Steve Erickson

Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -…

— Rufus Wainwright