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Elizabeth Hand Quotes

born 1957 United States

Elizabeth Hand (born 29 March 1957) is an American writer, whose first story, "Prince of Flowers", was published in 1988 in Twilight Zone magazine, and her first novel, Winterlong, was published in 1990.

United States
Novelists
Short story writers

Random Elizabeth Hand quote

29 quotes

There's always a moment when everything changes.

Generation Loss (2007)

He even taught himself to play the viole de gambols, a true sign of a man with too much time on his hands.

Wylding Hall (2015)

Truth is, often Lesley got the fuzzy end of the lollypop.

Wylding Hall (2015)

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

Elizabeth Hand on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)

I never mentioned it to anyone. No one else ever spoke of seeing it.

Generation Loss (2007)

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.

People want to believe something, and so they swallow anything.

I've always had numinous dreams, and a lot of them feature a Dionysian character I named The Boy in the Tree.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

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

Generation Loss (2007)

I had from earliest childhood a sense that there was no skin between me and the world. I saw things other people didn't see.

Generation Loss (2007)

I think Washington is a magical place.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

No one actually knows what these cultures were really like, but it's doubtful that they were free of the same problems of sexual inequality that we have today.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I have to say (regretfully) that I've seen very little in my real life to indicate the presence of either the supernatural or the divine.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I saw no evidence of supernatural ones, alas.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign (and far more fun-loving) forces of Dionysos.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

So much fantasy relies on the author's having read Fraser's The Golden Bough or Robert Graves' The White Goddess and nothing else.

I don't think all artists are mad, but there is statistical medical evidence that a lot of creative people suffer from various mood disorders.

Strange Horizons interview (2004)

I had no distance or detachment from what I read: it seemed too real to me, too possible.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I worked at the Smithsonian for a number of years.

Strange Horizons interview (2004)

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.

Strange Horizons interview (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Hand (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.