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Elizabeth Hand, born on March 29, 1957, is an American writer whose works span various literary genres, including novels, short story collections, and poetry. She is known for her unique literary style and profound exploration of supernatural themes.

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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.”

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Book:Radiant Days

Source: Radiant Days

“[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.”

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Book:Radiant Days

Source: Radiant Days

“It wasn't exactly like I'd sold out on my life and dreams and all that other bullshit, because the truth was I'd never actually had anything to sell. It was more like I slowly froze in place, inside my little office at the museum; more like some part of me just fell asleep one day and never woke up.”

Failure Disappointment Stasis

Book:Waking the Moon

Source: Waking the Moon

“People forget that the colliers didn’t just bring the canaries into the mines to warn them against the poisonous gases. They took them down because they sang so beautifully, even in the dark.”

Music Singing Canary In The Coal Mine

Book:Wylding Hall

Source: Wylding Hall

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

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Author: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's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.”

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Author: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 course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.”

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“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 are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.”

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Author:Elizabeth Hand

“It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.”

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Book:Generation Loss

Source: Generation Loss

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

Book:Glimmering

Source: Glimmering

“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 wholly imaginary world.”

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Author:Elizabeth Hand

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

Ifs Character Shells

Book:Illyria

Source: Illyria

“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.”

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Author: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 spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.”

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Book:Illyria

Source: Illyria

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Born: March 29, 1957
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 14

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