Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline A. Carey is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
stupid blame speak
Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
absence experience genre human leave noticed sexuality
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
great kept looked novel soap sort taking utterly
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked.
lucy stepping wardrobe
I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.
access agent huge literary tremendous work
Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
consider fiction mainstream science work
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while.
gauges
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
loss true-value values
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
shadow
What is fear but courage's shadow?
bears chains hardest
Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
hands cold poignant
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
dream half wells
Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing
character tales figures
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?
love-is life-and-death steel
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.