Ioana

“I’d never set out to have a cult of librarians who answered only to me and my sister, but it did come in handy whenever I needed to do research.”
― Jordan L. Hawk, Balefire

“Mind you, I do recall that Salman Rushdie actually came second in a science fiction writing competition organized by Gollancz in the late 1970s. Just imagine if he’d won – Ayatollahs from Mars! – he would have had none of that trouble over The Satanic Verses, ’cos it would have been SF and therefore unimportant. He’d have been coming along to cons. He’d be standing here now! Ah, but the little turns and twists of history . . .”
― Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

“It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Stabbity, stabbity, stab. That will be two dollars.’ ‘No,’ I say, ‘that’s not how assassination works. You do not charge the corpse.’ So she thinks about it and says, ‘My friend Keith,’ (another small munchkin salutes) ‘he’s from the Guild of Alchemists and will bring you alive again for three dollars.’ So with rigor mortis setting in, I stuck my hand in my pocket and gave them some of the fake convention money and then she smiled sweetly and said, ‘And for five dollars, I won’t kill you again.’ It was amazing to see how this Ankh-Morpork system evolved during the con.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction