Ann Leckie Quotes

Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.

Ann Leckie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FoodPastWorldKindWayReal

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

Andre Rieu

PositiveOptimist

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

John Stossel

FreePersonDyingTakeSomething

In the last 680 million years of the four and a half billion that this planet has existed, life has been determined by two principal forces: the warmth and the diffused energy of the sunlight coming through our atmosphere, and water. Those are the primordial forces of life - sunlight and water.

Steve Wynn

LifeWaterEnergySunlightPrincipal

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

Tommy Franks

GovernmentConstitutionWillMilitary

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

Miguel

CreativeStepMeProcessPlaceAway

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

Lorraine Hansberry

BeautyArtMyselfPersonalityJoy

I just want to keep America safe. Who could be against that?

Lou Barletta

AmericaWantSafeAgainstKeepJust

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Jared Diamond

LossHumanInventionContactFaster

It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really.

Derek Hough

MusicMePlaySayWantWrite

In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

Chris Fussell

LifeBusinessResponsibilityChoices

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.

William Morris

LifeGoodLiveHappyBe HappyEnjoy

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Paulo Coelho

ParentsPeopleMeCrazyWriting

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