216 Quotes by Ann Leckie

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

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.

Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.

The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many.

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.

Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.

The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.