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Quotes from Strange Horizons interview — Elizabeth Hand

born 1957 United States

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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 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)

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)

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)

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)

Attribution

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