We’re not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more positive light than is true. Lindsay Ellis Read Quote
I want people to become more comfortable with deeper looks at the things that they love. It doesn’t mean that you have to stop loving them, it just means that you have a more complete understanding of them. Lindsay Ellis Read Quote
I always thought of YouTube as this super-finite thing where trends ebb and flow. Lindsay Ellis Read Quote
I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast vein. Lindsay Ellis Read Quote
Back in the ’90s, whenever we were having ’70s nostalgia, you could take the good with the bad. Like yeah, sure, Nixon happened, Watergate happened, but we also had bell bottoms and ABBA and ‘The Brady Bunch.’ Lindsay Ellis Read Quote
I’m always happy to be in Ireland in general, it’s one of my favorite places. Lindsay Ellis Read Quote
The fact that I had spent so many years doing media criticism and thinking really seriously about theme and structure did definitely help. Doing that for several years indirectly built a lot of tools that I would end up using when writing my own fiction. Lindsay Ellis Read Quote
People do tend to be extremely skeptical, especially of YouTubers – and rightly so. Lindsay Ellis Read Quote
A lot of influencers who have made the pivot to publishing, they tend to be ghostwritten, they tend to be younger. It’s a little bit of an uphill battle by nature of coming from YouTube. Lindsay Ellis Read Quote