Teresa Nielsen Hayden quotes
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“Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.”
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“If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.”
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“Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.”
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“I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.”
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“The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies”
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“Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.”
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“Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.”
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“Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.”
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“I have to go make books. Sorry about that.”
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“If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.”
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“Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.”
-- Teresa Nielsen HaydenSource : "The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot" by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, nielsenhayden.com. June 22, 2002.
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“If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.”
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