Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierceis an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. She made a name for herself with her first book series, The Song of the Lioness, which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight. Many of her books have feminist themes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
husband men want
If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
knights what-if chivalry
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
knows ifs
If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.
winter night brave
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
eye feet clothes
The tall thief rushed down the stairs and grabbed her, swinging her around as he laughed. "And I've been thinkin' you forgot me," he said, placing her on her feet once more. "Just look at you! Tan and fit and wearin' the clothes of a Bazhir-" Alanna looked up into his friendly hazel eyes and broke into tears.
folks
[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.
cousin brother uncles
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.
long world ignored
So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.
fear mean attention
Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.
sorry liars lying
I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "--or the best. Now I'm all confused.
running fun writing
If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
writing thinking stories
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
dream father writing
I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
nice pages being-nice
Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?