Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

"That was something I never understood until I saw a 70 foot wave."

: "You're giving them light and color and a story, and in doing so they begin to transform."

"...after they did this four consecutive days of writing, they found that people had fewer visits to the hospital..."

"There's just tons of great writing about New York, but if I step out of a cab in Manhattan, the energy is so strong and finished, and I just feel like, there's nothing for me to do."

"Trying to figure out how you can get around the restrictions is what makes fantasy and the Regency for me very interesting."

"...a free woman like that in a society which was really very cramped and really very limited would just be like a phoenix..."

"Cecelia has built a whole career out of historicals; your first is sort of a historical; is that the direction you're going in, or just something you did?" - Terry Bisson

"Keep going with me and everything will be fine."

"I might be one of the first generation of science fiction writers to come to the writing of it with a head full of academic critical theories..."

"Jane Austen was kind of British."