The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. – Karl Marx
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didnt have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. – Terri Windling
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that. – Gillian Anderson
When we were filming The Darkest Hour, we didnt even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didnt even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when youre just generating them from your own imagination. – Olivia Thirlby
I think that different pleasures work for different readers – a friend of mine wont read anything thats not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but Im a sucker for humor and strangeness. – Karen Russell
