Quotes by Nicola Griffith

About Nicola Griffith:

Nicola Griffith is a British-American author, editor and essayist. Griffith has won a Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, the World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards.
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I don’t belong to ! I’m not a thing, to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me! I’m a woman.

Nicola Griffith

Always know what they want to hear - not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along.

Nicola Griffith

Dogs own space and cats own time.

Nicola Griffith

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

Nicola Griffith

Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.

Nicola Griffith

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

Nicola Griffith

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

Nicola Griffith

My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.

Nicola Griffith

I want to write about grown-up things.

Nicola Griffith

I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.

Nicola Griffith

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

Nicola Griffith

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious...

Nicola Griffith

Author Bio

  • NameNicola Griffith
  • DescriptionBritish-American writer
  • BornSeptember 30, 1960
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter
  • AwardsNebula Award; Lambda Literary Award