Elizabeth Hand Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

[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.

If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.