216 Quotes by Ann Leckie

One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.

I've seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn't.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.

I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.

In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful.