Tamora Pierce Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.”

“If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.”

“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?”

“What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.”

“I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.”

“The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.”

“I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.”

“With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.”

“You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.”

“I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.”