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Sarah Zettel Quotes
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, thats the hard work. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An authors life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think its beginning to stretch its range as well. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? Its also about politics. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
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. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Im mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Im told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
If I get blocked, it is generally because I dont 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. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
My father was a major SF fan in the 40s and 50s, so the house was full of SF books. Thats where I got my start and I never looked back. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and theres a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Oh, and for capturing the wonder and magic of fairy tales and turning that into fresh and modern stories, there is no one around to the Neil Gaiman. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
Once, I got an idea for a short story during a Halloween concert while watching someone play the bones during the performance of Dance Macabre. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
So, The Quiet Invasion is about the attempt to coexist peacefully with people who have radically different ideas and backgrounds than your own. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. - Sarah Zettel Quotes
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