Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."


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Recite the Periodic Table of Teatime, in correct order, with Elemental Symbols, please.'
A-Thro...
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When she spoke, the words were rote, taught to her by her captors, dead and empty, and forced. But h...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. V...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider m...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Some thought he was quite wicked, but in truth, he was no more or less than any other crow: enamored...
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Well," the Marsh King pursed his beak politely, "at any rate, your manliness need only last for a re...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not slee...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. ...
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Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smil...
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He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself li...
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Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!"
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Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. A...
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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You think I am so wicked, don't you? A monster. Unnatural. How cruel of me to keep you here and ratt...
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I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leuc...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you be...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You wanted Death? This is it. Dirt and decay, nothing more. Death translates us all into earth.” H...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun...
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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Here’s something I bet you don’t know:
every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
From that day forward she never used my name. Eventually I forgot it. Mrs. H called me something new...
CATHERYNNE M VALENTE
Your Eve was wise, John. She knew that Paradise would make her mad, if she were to live forever with...
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He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew unti...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.
Nothing to brag on,
but enough for y...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
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Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cann...
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Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometime...
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Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa...
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I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floati...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
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Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incr...
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Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They'...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough...
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story?
SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watchin...
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Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widow...
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girl...
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I am not a toy, September! Fairyland cannot just cast me aside when it’s finished playing with me!...
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Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and ...
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I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist.
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