Quotes by Kelly Link

Kelly Link

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It’s a stage all girls go through. If you’re lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Girl

Inspirational

Teenager

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one’s real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

Hate

Real

Sex

As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room — not often — two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

Doors

Hair

Light

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

Average

North Carolina

Queens

Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.

Dating

Looking Good

Reality

Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There’s no such thing as a normal childhood. What’s useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

Childhood

Normal

Writing

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

Ends

Knows

Wizards

I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for me out of their own hair, and one of my wives was my gunner. I came back here, after many adventures, and once, when I’d been drinking, donated the funeral carpet to the national museum. When I was sober again, I asked for it back, but they claimed not to know what I was talking about.

Adventure

Drinking

Husband

I didn’t do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn’t feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I’m a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.

Finals

Soul

Writing

I don’t abandon stories once I’ve started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

Giving Up

Ideas

Stories

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Adventure

Age

Average

Awards

Balance

Bed

Blind

Book

Buried

Childhood

Coffee

Confusion

Cutting

Dating

Details

Doors

Drinking

Editors

Educational

Ends

Enough

Essentials

Evil

Eye

Faster

Feet

Fiction

Finals

Firsts

Flattered

Girl

Giving Up

Goodbye

Grateful

Hair

Hate

Heart

Home

House

Hurt

Husband

Ideas

Ifs

Inspirational

Interesting

Jobs

Kings

Knows

Life

Light

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Quotes by Kelly Link

Kelly Link

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It’s a stage all girls go through. If you’re lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one’s real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room — not often — two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.

Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There’s no such thing as a normal childhood. What’s useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

I don’t abandon stories once I’ve started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

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