Teresa Nielsen Hayden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Writing #Magic #Use
If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Used
Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Icons #White #Males
I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Nice #Believe #Order
The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Running #Self #People
Just because youâ€™re on their side doesnâ€™t mean theyâ€™re on your side.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Mean #Your Side #Sides
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Publicity #Promotion
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Publicity #Sometimes #Promotion
I have to go make books. Sorry about that.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Sorry #Book
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Different #Reader
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Stories #Plot #Conventions
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#Use #Force #Civil Society

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