Quotes by Barbara Hambly

About Barbara Hambly:

Barbara Hambly is 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.
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Dragonsbane, they called him. Slayer of dragons. Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.

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Then someone within closed the door, shutting Norah out into the howling dust of the night. The clouds parted briefly to reveal the full moon's cold eye, then closed again. Wind seared over the pavilion's double roof, its voice rising to a shriek. Di...

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The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who'll see it on the screen. It's like the people who read and because it's in Russia they can say, 'Oh, that's not my pain they're talking a...

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The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to k...

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God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

Barbara Hambly

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.

Barbara Hambly

If the other novice wizards on the row hadn't broken into Raeshaldis's rooms, pissed on her bed and written WHORE and THIEF on the walls, she probably would have been killed on the night of the full moon.

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The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

Barbara Hambly

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameBarbara Hambly
  • DescriptionAmerican fiction writer
  • AliasesBarbara Hamilton (pseudonym)
  • BornAugust 28, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter; Novelist