Leslie J. Anderson > Quotes

“Something had been born, unexpected, the salt of the sea in its lungs. It screamed and screamed and it lived.”
― Leslie J. Anderson, The Unmothers

“Read everything -- not only in your genre, but in completely new ones.”
― Leslie J. Anderson

“There was a horse that gave birth. There was a baby. There was a tree. There was a price.”
― Leslie J. Anderson, The Unmothers

“Your protagonist suffers from mental illness, but that fact is not central to the”
― Leslie J. Anderson, Inklings: 300 Starts, Plots, and Challenges to Inspire your Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Stories

“She wondered if she made them uncomfortable. She was a big woman, and made no attempt at being pretty. Her hair was short and often uncombed, and she didn't bother with makeup. She was bitterly comfortable inside her own body, in a way women often weren't, and sometimes that unsettled people.”
― Leslie J. Anderson, The Unmothers

“She had the power of all of it, the tree, the river, the hooves, the sky, the blood, the womb, the gallop, the dirt, the birthing, the dying.”
― Leslie J. Anderson, The Unmothers