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I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. and some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. but i'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.

-Anna Paquin

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Anna Paquin

I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. and some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. but i'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.

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I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'yes, it's a comic. yes, this is fantasy. yes, this is science fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'horror is a bit passe so this is dark fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. so that's why i say i'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'it doesn't read like what i think of as a fantasy'. in that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. or there is more to it than you think.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. you've already read too much. read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

I was working in this very bombastic style. i didn't really know about style. i didn't think about it: i did what i was interested in, what i was attracted to, what i was drawn to. i was drawn to color, and i was drawn to humor, and i was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. it was all really intuitive. i never really thought, "well this is the style...

A guardian ad litem... gal is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. you don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a gal, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.

Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything i want. that, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea i'm curious about. i love it because fantasy is a genre that asks, "what if...?" that's my favorite question.

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