Quotes by Sarah Zettel

Sarah Zettel

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that’s the hard work.

Ideas

Stories

Work

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

Expansion

Thinking

Would Be

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

Telling Stories

Together

Writing

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author’s life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Change

Life Changing

Mother

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it’s beginning to stretch its range as well.

Fantasy

Range

Thinking

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It’s also about politics.

Invasion

Life

Stories

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

Males

Matter

Peers

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

Night

People

Trying

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

Character

Fall

Piano

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

Bears

Beautiful

Interesting

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Bears

Beautiful

Born

Brilliant

Butlers

California

Challenges

Change

Character

College

Communication

Courses

Crazy

Creating

Dance

Daughter

Diversity

Doors

Dust

Education

Expansion

Fall

Fantasy

Feels

Fiction

Glory

Guilt

Ideas

Inspirational

Interesting

Invasion

Life

Life Changing

Lists

Lord

Males

Matter

Mean

Michigan

Mind

Moon

Morning

Mother

Movie

Night

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People

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Quotes by Sarah Zettel

Sarah Zettel

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that’s the hard work.

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author’s life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it’s beginning to stretch its range as well.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It’s also about politics.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

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