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Ann Leckie Quotes

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1966

Topics

Angry People Gender Been Who Tried

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

Angry Write Being Anymore How Ever

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.

Science Writing Diet Early Try

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

Believe Chocolate You Find Hard

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Stephen Leacock

Work Day Creative Never Years Fifty

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

Girl Myself Book Silly Career Wrote

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Mother Death People Difficulty After

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

Character Write Always Emotional

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

Work Holiday Bathroom Addiction Bit

Governing has always been hard.

Hard Always Been Governing

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

Childhood Memory Me Remember Back

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Timothy Radcliffe

Faith Believe Christian My Own Own

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

Forest Actor Wildlife Ranger Were

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