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Kelly Link, born in July 1969, is an accomplished editor with extensive experience in the publishing industry. She has worked for several renowned publishers, where she has been responsible for editing and planning various projects. Link is known for her keen insight and passion for literature, making significant contributions to the development of the publishing industry.

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“There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.”

People Knows May Stories Found Differences Streets Hair Lovers Summer Winter Ghost Tangled Dead People Lice

Book:Magic for Beginners

Source: Magic for Beginners

“A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.”

Knows Real Self Hate Sex Loss Grief Secret Forever Possibility Metaphor Vampire Agency Lasting Flexible Love Hate Stagnation Real Self Forever Love Sex Change

Author:Kelly Link

“Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.”

Knows Writing Moments Fiction Childhood Particular Normal Unusual Life Experience Bizarre Strangeness

Author:Kelly Link

“I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for me out of their own hair, and one of my wives was my gunner. I came back here, after many adventures, and once, when I'd been drinking, donated the funeral carpet to the national museum. When I was sober again, I asked for it back, but they claimed not to know what I was talking about.”

Knows Talking Wife Adventure Hair Husband Built Drinking My Wife Ice My Husband Museums Funeral Sober Carpet Woven Husband And Wife Cannons Gunners

Book:Magic for Beginners

Source: Magic for Beginners

“Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”

Knows Play Remember Reading Hurt Tea Remember When Scrabble Tea Leaves

Book:Magic for Beginners

Source: Magic for Beginners

“Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.”

Knows Ends Wizards

Book:Pretty Monsters

Source: Pretty Monsters

About the Author

Born: July 19, 1969
Known for: Editor
Quotes: 62

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