Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hamblyis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1951
CountryUnited States of America
Barbara Hambly quotes about
fields impossible making-money
I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.
running differences wizards
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.
You narrow hope when you define it...
people different stage
We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.
boring gravity knows
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
arms oneself intimidated
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
cleaning lifetime footwear
As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.
temptation wizards hypothesis
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.
book shining retreat
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
answers want enough
The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.
butterfly hands giving
...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.
privilege judged
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
imagination progress driven
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.