Elizabeth Hand quotes

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)
I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign (and far more fun-loving) forces of Dionysos. View quote
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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. View quote
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Several months later I had this dream. I was kneeling in the field where I'd seen the eye. A figure appeared in front of me: a man with green-flecked eyes, his smile mocking and oddly compassionate. As I stared up at him, he extended his hand until his finger touched the center of my forehead. There was a blinding flash. I fell on my face, terrified, woke in bed with my ears ringing. It was the morning of my seventeenth birthday. View quote
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I'm sure one reason that so many Greek myths deal with terrifying, powerful women - Medea, Electra, the Erinyes, the Bacchae, - is that at some point in the misty past, women held a power that was terrifying - terrifying not because they were women whom men felt threatened by, but because they wielded that power in terrifying rituals that almost certainly involved human sacrifice. This would not be a popular platform on which to base a feminist agenda. View quote
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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. View quote
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Truth is, often Lesley got the fuzzy end of the lollypop. View quote
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I couldn't breathe. Couldn't blink. Couldn't hear a thing, not them talking or the wind or the truck driving off or bees. Couldn't scream out to Will to help me or to anyone else, all of them talking and going on as though I wasn't even there. And that was when I realized: This is what it's like to be dead. No clouds or lights or bright tunnel, not even darkness: just the world turning and going on without you and you'll never be part of it again. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It doesn't have a lot of mythic subtext. ... For me a lot of the world really is like that. (Elizabeth Hand)
No one actually knows what these cultures were really like, but it's doubtful that they were free of the same problems of sexual inequality that we have today. View quote
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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. View quote
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I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job. View quote
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It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared. View quote
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I worked at the Smithsonian for a number of years. View quote
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I was about ten when I first read 1984 and Lord of the Flies, both of which absolutely terrified me. View quote
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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. View quote
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I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job. View quote
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I had no distance or detachment from what I read: it seemed too real to me, too possible. View quote
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It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. (Elizabeth Hand)
There's always a moment when everything changes. View quote
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I think Washington is a magical place. View quote
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I never mentioned it to anyone. No one else ever spoke of seeing it. View quote
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So much fantasy relies on the author's having read Fraser's The Golden Bough or Robert Graves' The White Goddess and nothing else. View quote
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