Fantasy Author

🇺🇸James Branch Cabell

Literature

1879–1958

"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice online at University of Virginia"

🇺🇸George R. R. Martin

Literature

b. 1948

"Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be."

🇺🇸George R.R. Martin

Literature

1948–2019

"I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once."

🇺🇸George Saunders

Literature

b. 1958

"Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen."

🇬🇧China Miéville

Literature

b. 1972

"There is no theology so desperate that you can’t find it."

🇺🇸Paolo Bacigalupi

Literature

b. 1972

"You're saying that you yoked the world to your patented grains and seeds, happily enslaved us all—and now you finally realize that you are dragging us all to hell."

🇺🇸Melissa Marr

Literature

b. 1972

"Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter."

🇺🇸Shannon Hale

Literature

b. 1974

"You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free."

🇺🇸David Weber

Literature

b. 1952

"Narration: Perhaps his love for her made him less than impartial, but he also knew how deeply she'd been hurt and chided her for judging herself so much more harshly than she would have judged someone else..."

🇺🇸Tim Powers

Literature

b. 1952

"Art, like a lot of things, is a lost art."

🇺🇸Elizabeth Hand

Literature

b. 1957

"I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign forces of Dionysos."