I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

- Carol Anshaw

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

- Carol Anshaw

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the aff…

- Carol Anshaw

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

- Carol Anshaw

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

- Carol Anshaw

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

- Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

- Carol Anshaw

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going …

- Carol Anshaw

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

- Carol Anshaw