63 Quotes by Sarah Zettel

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.