Occupation: Author Birth: March 2, 1943
Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better..
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and….
The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people..
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking..
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting….
Sometimes it is right to fear the dark..
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinemen….
I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back i….
Wolf! Right here and now!.
Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?.
What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thin….
My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much a….
I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..
I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old..
I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to ….
I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel as well as that particular nov….
You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart..
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear..
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom..
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary..
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity..