27 Quotes by Laura Anne Gilman

"When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up."

"Call it not paranoia, but caution."

"The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free."

"Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered."

"Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere."

"Clever’s not enough to hold me – I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect."

"There were days Gabriel wondered why they didn’t just hand everything over to women and be done with it."