I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres ar…

- Elizabeth Hand

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a w…

- Elizabeth Hand

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

- Elizabeth Hand

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that…

- Elizabeth Hand

Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never sp…

- Elizabeth Hand

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a w…

- Elizabeth Hand

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

- Elizabeth Hand

I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of cour…

- Elizabeth Hand

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

- Elizabeth Hand