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There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.
Marie Brennan
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I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
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The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
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I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.
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'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.
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At one point in the 'Onyx Court' series, I think during 'In Ashes Lie', I suggested that Lune might come to love someone else eventually. Which was me pushing back against the narrative trope that people only get one True Love in their entire lives - an idea I think is kind of pernicious - but in retrospect, I wish I hadn't done it there.
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Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.
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My mood depends heavily on what happens to me right after I get up.
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I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.
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I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.
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I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you start figuring out where you could be doing better. But as far back as I can trace, I always wrote clear, grammatical prose.
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I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.
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