Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hamblyis an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She has a bestselling mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1951
CountryUnited States of America
privilege judged
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
books current love
It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
great peril silent sticks suppose technology time totally wrote
I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
afternoon couple dozen ideal medical trip
I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
asked feels smile
Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
fields impossible making-money
I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.
running differences wizards
Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.
You narrow hope when you define it...
people different stage
We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.
imagination progress driven
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.
boring gravity knows
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
arms oneself intimidated
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
cleaning lifetime footwear
As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.
temptation wizards hypothesis
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.