Quotes from Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?

Write. Publish. Repeat.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Reese, honey, victims are victims when they remain quiet. They gain power when they speak out.

Discipline i]t's the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you've started.

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule.

You have a teenage daughter, Miles. She'll be smart one minute and stupid the next. Deal with it.

But the past determines who we are, and it has led to this sartling future.

Kueller shook his head. "You don't hate Skywalker. You hate the way he makes you feel. You hate yourself, Brakiss. You hate what you've become.

Everyone ignores two important facts: one person's crap is another person's beloved book, and publishing has always produced books in great volume.

It wasn't quite the death of hope—part of her still hoped that Coop was alive somewhere. It was more like the application of hope. She wanted to make sure that no one else—child, adult, crew member, captain—would ever lose a loved one to foldspace again. It was probably a vain hope. But it would keep her going, for at least another forty years.

About ten meters beneath us," Yash says. "We'll be able to map its footprint, just like Stone says.

Some old spacers stay away from wrecks. These old-timers believe the wrecks are haunted—not by the dead crew, but by old science, the kind that could kill us because we don't understand it.

Sometimes great risks require a little bit of stupid.

You know, in the past, I would've gotten yelled at for that kind of outspokenness. Now everyone listens as if what I have to say is important, and then they find ways to contradict me. I think I like the yelling better.

At that same anthology workshop, award-winning romance writer Anthea Lawson (who also writes fantasy as the bestselling Anthea Sharp) told me about a successful bundle that she has done.

There are seven plots. Shakespeare wrote them better than anyone. If that scares you, leave now." If

If you're going to be an expert in something, then you need to be an expert in all aspects of it. From what makes it work to what makes it desirable to what makes it flawed.

Well, Your Worship, does this mean I get to go back to being a scoundrel? She

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.