Ellen Kushner Quotes

• Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

  Ellen Kushner

  Beer, People, Needs

  Ellen Kushner (2007). “Swordspoint”, p.333, Spectra

  45 Copy quote

• Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

  Ellen Kushner

  Dream, Make You Happy, Bigs

  4 Copy quote

• A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.

  Ellen Kushner

  Country, Baby, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

  Ellen Kushner

  Definitions, Sense Of Humor, Honest

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.109, Spectra

  4 Copy quote

• Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

  Ellen Kushner

  Morning, Cutting, Winter

  5 Copy quote

• Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?

  Ellen Kushner

  Running, Hate, Party

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.159, Spectra

  6 Copy quote

• Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

  Ellen Kushner

  Invention, Fingertips, Fine

  4 Copy quote

• Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.

  Ellen Kushner

  Fashion, Art, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

  Ellen Kushner

  Together Again, Together, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

  Ellen Kushner

  Book, Fists, Cushions

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.12, Spectra

  4 Copy quote

• I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.

  Ellen Kushner

  Mean, Thinking, Buckets

  "The Privilege of the Sword". Book by Ellen Kushner, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

  Ellen Kushner

  Cities, Privilege, Wealth

  Ellen Kushner (2016). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.255, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

• He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

  Ellen Kushner

  Availability, Said, Worthless

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.344, Spectra

  4 Copy quote

• Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

  Ellen Kushner

  Real, Dark, Roots

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin