Best 17 quotes of Ellen Kushner on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

although he was at core a rotten being, no one could fault him for style.

Every man lives at swordspoint.

Every man lives at swordspoint, Ferris intoned.

I do not make the rules [. . .] This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them