It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all. Ann Leckie More Quotes by Ann Leckie More Quotes From Ann Leckie I'm not going to pretend that I never fantasized about winning the Hugo. Or the Nebula, for that matter. I just never thought it was an actual real possibility. Ann Leckie never thought matter winning I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh. Ann Leckie influences biggest say like 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 you music attitude art 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 person down know you I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun. Ann Leckie tried gender angry people 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Christianity that it was 'real' religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that's why it's completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices.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 real faith history religion 'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me. Ann Leckie sword out up me I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet. Ann Leckie old always internet people Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through. Ann Leckie write through just you 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 you love character science I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that. Ann Leckie short first think writing I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away. Ann Leckie right first story think Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer. Ann Leckie something thought always writing 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 day you brain home I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along. Ann Leckie bored serious sitting children Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward. Ann Leckie award yourself you happy 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 day thought people thinking When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery. Ann Leckie places need go like 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 new think problem world 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 you nice book world
