Quotes by Foz Meadows

“True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents.”

“The ground keeps changing."He gave her arm a gentle pinch. "Do you still think this is a dream?""All dreams change," said Saffron. "That's how you know they're dreams.""So does reality," he replied...”

“How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with...”

“As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at the same audience all trumpet the same message And Lo! There shall be...”

“Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to discriminate against gay and female characters, the unavoidable ...”

“it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot worse than trying to coin some terms of their own: to name the ar...”

“For centuries, no one was concerned that books werent girl-friendly, because no one really cared if girls read; but even so, we persisted for long enough that literature has slowly come to accommod...”

“Feelings are feelings, no matter when they happen. Our bodies don't stop being ours just because worse things happen to other people.”

“Never having experienced inequality, therefore, the majority of straight white men will be absolutely oblivious to their own advantages not because they must necessarily be insensitive, sexist, ra...”

“And against whom is this censorship directed? By way of answer, think back to the big subcultural debates of 2011 debates about how gritty fantasy isnt really fantasy; how epic fantasy written fro...”

“In the past few years, more and more passionate debates about the nature of SFF and YA have bubbled to the surface. Conversations about race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, romance, bias, original...”

“We have so long been subject to external criticism that we dont know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring, positive and sensible response to the former is a united ...”

“It's a hat," said Jess.Manx stretched. "Yes.""A hat with - just to be clear - a lizard on it. A real, dead lizard.""An iguana, yea. It's been stuffed.""I can see that. Any idiot can see that, but i...”

“I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me”

“For centuries, no one was concerned that books weren’t girl-friendly, because no one really cared if girls read; but even so, we persisted for long enough that literature has slowly come to accommo...”

“We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring, positive and sensible response to the former is a united...”