Elizabeth Hand Quotes

• But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Running, Horse, Mean

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• You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Character, Shells, Ifs

  Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.52, Penguin

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• I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Jobs, Drama, College

  "Intense Ornate". Amazon.co.uk interview, 1999.

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• There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Answers, Woods

  Elizabeth Hand (1997). “Glimmering”

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• I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Strong, Character, World

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• Los mitos reales son a menudo extraños y sorprendentemente desconocidos, y no siempre revelan su significado con facilidad; hay que desentrañarlos, y para mí ése es uno de los placeres de leer antiguas colecciones de tradiciones.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Giving Up, Real, Reading

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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• Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Childhood, Body, Faces

  Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.34, Penguin

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• I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Book, Thinking, Suspense Novels

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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• It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Ideas, Creepy, Sound

  Elizabeth Hand (2013). “Generation Loss”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Past, Our World, Notion

  Interview with Cheryl Morgan, strangehorizons.com. November 29, 2004.

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