Tansy Rayner Roberts > Quotes

“There's something beautiful about the perfect hashtag. Never underestimate what can be accomplished with a few carefully chosen characters strung together behind a number symbol.

At its purest, the hashtag contains and defines and reduces a massive idea down to a single word or phrase. The best ones offer subversive commentary on themselves.

Truly, the hashtag is the epic poem of the 21st century.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Girl Reporter

“it’s always bad news when the weather shows personality”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, This Enchanted Island

“Wine and conversation were all very well, but books were books were books.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Unreal Alchemy

“cum tantum sciat esse basiorum. (”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, 50 Roman Mistresses

“If the toffs can’t afford to be hypocrites, who can?”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Gate Sinister

“Indeed, all of the Lancre Witch novel plots tend to be about stories, and how stories work in a world of magic. This meta-element raises them into being far more than amusing romps with complicated sentences (which I think is a fair description of all the Discworld books before Wyrd Sisters).”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on Female Characters of the Discworld

“How rare is it to find a book that does this? How rare to have a story with so many women in it that you don’t even need a romance because the women already have plenty to do? In the fantasy genre.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on Female Characters of the Discworld

“If they stayed on this main street until the very last moment, there was a chance Dhynar would not pounce until the.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Power and Majesty

“Showmanship. It had never come easily to him, but he had learned a thing or two from working with Orlando all these years. Making a fuss and a flap, putting on a spectacle of whatever you were doing, was sometimes the only way to get anything done.

You couldn't think about the consequences. That was the trick of a good performance.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, House Perilous

“Friends don’t ask friends about why they choose to tattoo a shark on one leg and slap on an eyepatch. That’s what makes privateers better than people.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, This Enchanted Island

“So this is me: Friday Valentina. Twenty-year old media studies student at MacArthur University. I’m short and my hair is purple this week. I wear vintage political t-shirts because they’re hilarious and tragic at the same time. I’m obsessed with superheroes—the real ones, not the ones in comics or movies or cartoons. My vlog is the Friday Report: three parts superhero news to three parts superhero snark. That’s what I call balanced journalism.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Girl Reporter

“One of the things I’ve always loved and appreciated about the Discworld novels is how every re-read brings new layers to them. I used to think it was because I was a fast, careless reader, but no. It’s the books. In these essays that I’m often in conversation with myself at different points in my life, because the books have different effects and meanings depending on my age and experience.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on Female Characters of the Discworld

“This is not my tragic backstory. I had a great childhood. My mother loved me. I never wanted for money or support. I get to make snarky vids for a living, and I don’t have to worry about ad income.

I am #firstworldproblems

I am #whitegirlprivilege

No daddy issues to work through here.

A phone call’s not going to change that.

And yet.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Girl Reporter

“Your daggers are in the ceiling,” said Metis. She glanced upward. He did have rather a lot of daggers. “Were you trying to stab the boat? It’s not a good idea to put holes in the boat. That’s basic captaining, I shouldn’t have to explain that to you.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, This Enchanted Island

“It's important to remember where you come from, if you want to get anywhere interesting.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Reign of Beasts

“By the time I reach cronehood, I expect I’ll have given up on most other authors, but Pratchett will still be there, teaching me something new.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on Female Characters of the Discworld

“She commissioned the Device Brothers to make me a jewellery tree for my birthday, and deliberately misunderstood the assignment, creating an enormous bronze tree with enough branches to hold the Crown Jewels.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Land Glorious

“I know how dangerous you can be, with a hedgehog in one hand and a teacup in the other.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Teacup Magic: The First Collection

“They had a big job ahead, but at the end of it there would be something real, she hoped. Something they had built themselves, instead of falling into. That was a future you could believe in.”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, Reign of Beasts