Connie Willis Quotes

She had been wrong in thinking Christ had been called up against his will to fight in a war. He didn...

You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend...

Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying ...

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. Th...

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowled...

Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old frien...

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They giv...

...then inn a conversational tone said, "I slapped my Aunt Martha. When my fiancé died. She told me ...

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, f...

Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it...

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why n...

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost over...

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They ...

What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departm...

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner ...

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "...

Eureka!"s like the one Archimedes had when he stepped in a bathtub and suddenly realized the answer ...

Good. Drink your tea," he ordered. "It will make you feel better."Nothing will make me feel better, ...

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to ...

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers ...

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should ...

To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins o...