I’ve seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn’t. Ann Leckie Read Quote
I do think that narrative is very important – I think that we use narrative to organize the world around us, and so it does matter a lot what kinds of narratives we have in our inventories and which ones are reinforced so often and so strongly that we habitually reach for them without thinking. Ann Leckie Read Quote
The lessons of slushing and editing build up over time, and you’re not necessarily thinking about them while you’re working, but they’re in the back of your mind, probably influencing your choices. Ann Leckie Read Quote
The ‘indistinguishable from magic’ thing is highly dependent on where a viewer is looking from and not something intrinsic to any particular sort of tech. Ann Leckie Read Quote
The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn’t have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen. Ann Leckie Read Quote
The ’70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence. Ann Leckie Read Quote
Fountain of youth’ is actually kind of ambiguous – does it mean a way to make everyone healthy and let them live indefinitely? Or are we talking about something that would reset you physically to the way you were in your youth, which for various reasons not all of us would be enthused about? Ann Leckie Read Quote
I don’t really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don’t worry too much about whether it’s supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever. Ann Leckie Read Quote
I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong – sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that. Ann Leckie Read Quote
I didn’t ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many. Ann Leckie Read Quote
