Delia Sherman > Quotes

“All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my husband, to you. Correspondence has always been as necessary to my happiness as a well-cooked dinner, and I've found it more sustaining for its generosity: an act of charity that returned to me a hundredfold...”
― Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove

“What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?”
― Delia Sherman, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

“For me, creative energy is like an old-fashioned ground-water well. When the well is dry, it’s dry. I can dig all I like, and all I’ll get for my pains is sore hands, some very bad prose, and maybe (if I’m lucky) a few odd droplets of notes I can actually use. Or not. It’s usually not worth it. After many years, I’ve discovered that it’s better to wait until some ground water seeps back into the well rather than to try and lick up every drop as it emerges.”
― Delia Sherman

“Anybody who can get through March without breaking a glass, a friendship, a secret, a promise, or somebody's nose is either a saint or on vacation in Florida.”
― Delia Sherman, The Evil Wizard Smallbone

“His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.”
― Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze

“Your Will is off the charts, but you already knew that. Your Confidence is a sometimes thing, and your Control and your Concentration both stink. As does your sense of self-preservation.”
― Delia Sherman, The Evil Wizard Smallbone

“My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.”
― Delia Sherman, Mad Hatters and March Hares

“Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.”
― Delia Sherman, Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

“mama”
― Delia Sherman, The Evil Wizard Smallbone

“magic is energy, and the energy comes from you. Use too little, nothing happens. Use too much, you’ll use it up quicker. Use it wrong, you can do a lot of damage.”
― Delia Sherman, The Evil Wizard Smallbone

“You have to know those things can happen, then make them so. You need WILL.”
― Delia Sherman, The Evil Wizard Smallbone