Seanan McGuire Quotes

Seanan McGuire

Profession : Author

Birth : January 5, 1978

A lot of people have read the Mira Grant books who are not urban fantasy readers, and they would never have picked up a book with an urban fantasist's name on the cover, but then they go on to read my urban fantasy and like it.

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I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.

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People have been known to joke that my lifelong love of portal fantasies was born, at least in part, from the fact that stepping into my private spaces is a little like stepping through a portal into another world.

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I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

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I can go on for hours about how 'Doctor Who' is a portal fantasy writ across the stars, how the companions are falling down the rabbit hole over and over again forever, tumbling head over heels into mystery. Hours.

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Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.

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In the long run, I think I like 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' better as a television series, because it had so much more time and room and space to grow.

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Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' wound up teaching me another, accidental lesson: that sometimes you're so excited to keep going down the road you're on, you drive right past your destination.

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I wrote a song called 'Pretty Little Dead Girl.'

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I believe that humans are pretty awesome but we are not capable of understanding what heaven would look like while we're alive because whatever is out there is so much bigger than we are.

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If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

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James Reed is inspired, if he is inspired by anyone specific, by P.T. Barnum. He's set up to be the ultimate American showman. His whole job is to sell you shadows. But he's not a nice person, he's not a good guy.

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I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

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Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it.

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Process does matter; you need a process. What it is is up to no one but you. But if you can't sit down, write once upon a time, and go through however many hundred thousand words to get to happily ever after, you're never going to get anywhere.

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Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.

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Sparrow Hill Road' is a stand-alone book that ties into the InCryptid universe, not the launching point for a whole new series.

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Fans are people, and people sometimes get mad at air. I know I do. So I have people huff at me because I'm not doing what they want, but I also have people get mad because I use profanity, or because I exist in material space, or because I was at Disneyland when they thought I should be writing.

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It's absolutely a dream job to get to write for Gwen Stacy.

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Out of all of the Spider-People, including Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy has the most over-developed sense of responsibility.

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