I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library’s science fictional and fantastic holdings. Ann Leckie Read Quote
One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything – tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn’t matter. It’s all productive work. Ann Leckie Read Quote
You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it’s so wonderful and amazing – I can’t even tell you – when that actually happens. Ann Leckie Read Quote
Writing books can be very individual – one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life. Ann Leckie Read Quote
Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about ‘adventure,’ but writers can’t build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones. Ann Leckie Read Quote
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that. Ann Leckie Read Quote
I’d say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh. Ann Leckie Read Quote
When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys’ club. Ann Leckie Read Quote
