Laura Anne Gilman Quotes

“I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place
just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

— Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

— Laura Anne Gilman

“I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.

— Laura Anne Gilman

“When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Call it not paranoia, but caution.”

— Laura Anne Gilman