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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 on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)
In those days, you could go anywhere, which you can't do now. You could get in behind the scenes and wander along these tunnels.
Strange Horizons interview (2004)
You read a lot of crap about photographic craftsmanship in those days, and technique; but you didnt hear shit about vision. I knew that I had an eye, a gift for seeing where the ripped edges of the world begin to peel away and something else shows through.
Generation Loss (2007)
It doesn't have a lot of mythic subtext. … For me a lot of the world really is like that.
Strange Horizons interview (2004)
I don't see the world like that all the time, but I see the world like that a lot.
So what am I going to do about that?
Strange Horizons interview (2004)
Or am I going to take that and channel it into my work? It is a gift.
Strange Horizons interview (2004)
What a crazy place this was. Someone gets sick, and instead of dialing 911 you send for an obese old fortune-teller. The thought made her stomach churn; because of course that’s what her mother had done. Put her faith in fairy dust and crystals instead of physicians and chemo.
Last Summer at Mars Hill (1994)
I try to maintain a balance between having a vision of the world that many readers do not experience for themselves, trying to give them enough grounding in the world we are all familiar with, so they don't feel that they are completely lost in Faerie.
Strange Horizons interview (2004)
I find that many modern fantasies explain things away far too easily, which makes a lot of it overly familiar (to me, anyway). 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)