Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

- Connie Willis

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

- Connie Willis

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new fo…

- Connie Willis

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bog…

- Connie Willis

He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, …

- Connie Willis

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (t…

- Connie Willis

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

- Connie Willis

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

- Connie Willis

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it co…

- Connie Willis