Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 May 1979
CountryUnited States of America
people library sound
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
book joy library
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
keys
Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
reading heart growth
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
happens
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
communication simple thinking
I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase my communication in terms of a human body. To say: let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.
mourning today ruins
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
dark world worst
The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
looks travel-and-love great-travel
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
adulthood ask constant heady looks parade permission single terrifying whatever
You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.
prayer stories green
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
awful except stop teacher took
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me.
delighted floating free inspired legal loved mine piece spend thrilled time
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don't read it for legal reasons, but I'm thrilled to know it's there. Someone cared. Someone loved it enough to spend their free time writing about it for free.
stretching
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.