6 Quotes & Sayings By Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is a bestselling and award-winning writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Her novels include six volumes of the Elemental Mysteries series, the first two volumes of the Iron Druid Chronicles, the novella A Map for Wishes, and the collection In Between the Dark and the Daylight. She has also written a number of short stories published in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Her latest novel, The Harrowed Heart, was a Barnes & Noble bestseller.

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding...
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[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together. Elizabeth Hand
If the retreat house was a trap, it was a...
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If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one. Elizabeth Hand
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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 spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of. Elizabeth Hand
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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 wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. Elizabeth Hand
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I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is it possible - the water wasn't deep enough for him to drown. It doesn't make any sense.'' My band made four brilliant albums and never had a single goddamn hit. We were supposed to be the American Rolling Stones, and we couldn't get more than five minutes of airplay. Does that make sense?' Ted stubbed out his cigarette. Elizabeth Hand