Quotes by Ann Leckie - Page 2

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 / Author
Connect
Hoping
Readers
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Working for several years as a waitress, you learn really quickly a couple of default scripts, so you know exactly what the interaction is going to be when the person sits down at the table.
Ann Leckie / Author
Default
Interaction
Scripts
Waitress
Exactly What
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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 / Author
Bad Taste
Guilty
Sophisticated
Taste
Pleasures
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Kids are fabulous, but when you're home all day with an infant that can't talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, 'I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.'
Ann Leckie / Author
Fabulous
Infant
All Day
Melt
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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 / Author
Ants
Awesome
Nearly
Textile
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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 / Author
Editing
Lessons
Time Thinking Mind
Influencing
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In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.
Ann Leckie / Author
Gender
Various
Sf
Stereotypes
Supposedly
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One day, I discovered that a couple of people had written 'fanfic' - stories of their own based on my characters. Just the thought of people thinking that hard and deeply about something I've written is incredible.
Ann Leckie / Author
One Day
Thinking Day People
Based
Deeply
Discovered
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The ability to live for five hundred years would be an incredible gift. But I greatly fear it would be a gift only for the wealthy - one that might greatly widen the gap between those with access and those without.
Ann Leckie / Author
Hundred
Wealthy
Gap
Greatly
Hundred Years
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It's a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was 'real' religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that's why it's completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices.
Ann Leckie / Author
Christianity
Narrative
Spirituality
Faith History Religion
Practices
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My taste in both is pretty eclectic. I do encourage people to try new and different kinds of tea if they can - there are so many different sorts, and so many, flavored or not, and there's bound to be something you like. The same with choral music, really.
Ann Leckie / Author
Different Kinds
Eclectic
Taste
Music People New
Bound
Encourage
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I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.
Ann Leckie / Author
Magical
Separates
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I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we're so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they're doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.
Ann Leckie / Author
Faithful
Interpreting
Forms
Presented
Styles
Suspect
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One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.
Ann Leckie / Author
Attention
Book
Nice Things
World Your More
Background
Board
Easily
Figuring
Readers
Second
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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 / Author
Abstract
Adventure
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Philosophical
Real World
Science Fiction
Technological
Assemble
Assumed
Fictional
The Real World
Worlds
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'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 / Author
Ambiguous
Fountain
Enthused
Indefinitely
Various Reasons
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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 / Author
Narrative
Organize
Thinking World Important
Reinforced
Strongly
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Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes.
Ann Leckie / Author
Attention
New World
Pay
Reader
Selling
Series
Apart
Books
Close
Close Attention
Concept
Hear
Introduce
Occasionally
Question
Real Problem
Themes
Trilogy
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Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.
Ann Leckie / Author
Mean
Night
Regret
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I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.
Ann Leckie / Author
Adventure
Fast Paced
Who Cares
Cardboard
Cares
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Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.
Ann Leckie / Author
Choices
Mean
Wish
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The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.
Ann Leckie / Author
Space
War
Drama
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