Connie Willis Quotes

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis , commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major SF awards than any other writer—most recently the "Best Novel" Hugo and Nebula Awards for Blackout/All Clear . She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 28th SFWA Grand Master in 2011.Several of her works feature time travel by history students at a faculty of the future University of Oxford—sometimes called the Time Travel series. They are the short story "Fire Watch" , the novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog , as well as the two-part novel Blackout/All Clear . All four won the annual Hugo Award but Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.



Wikipedia  

✵ 31. December 1945   •   Other names کانی ویلیس, 康妮·威利斯
Connie Willis photo

Works

Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
Bellwether
Bellwether
Connie Willis
Lincoln's Dreams
Lincoln's Dreams
Connie Willis
Passage
Passage
Connie Willis
Connie Willis: 39   quotes 0   likes

Famous Connie Willis Quotes

Connie Willis Quotes about people

Connie Willis Quotes about time

Connie Willis Quotes

““How dare you contradict their opinions! You are only a common servant.”
“Yes, miss,” he said wearily.
“You should be dismissed for being insolent to your betters.”
There was a long pause, and then Baine said, “All the diary entries and dismissals in the world cannot change the truth. Galileo recanted under threat of torture, but that did not make the sun revolve round the earth. If you dismiss me, the vase will still be vulgar, I will still be right, and your taste will still be plebeian, no matter what you write in your diary.”
“Plebeian?” Tossie said, bright pink. “How dare you speak like that to your mistress? You are dismissed.” She pointed imperiously at the house. “Pack your things immediately.”
“Yes, miss,” Baine said. “E pur si muove.”
“What?” Tossie said, bright red with rage. “What did you say?”
“I said, now that finally have dismissed me, I am no longer a member of the servant class and am therefore in a position to speak freely,” he said calmly.
“You are not in a position to speak to me at all,” Tossie said, raising her diary like a weapon. “Leave at once.”
“I dared to speak the truth to you because I felt you were deserving of it,” Baine said seriously. “I had only your best interests at heart, as I have always had. You have been blessed with great riches; not only with the riches of wealth, position, and beauty, but with a bright mind and a keen sensibility, as well as with a fine spirit. And yet you squander those riches on croquet and organdies and trumpery works of art. You have at your disposal a library of the great minds of the past, and yet you read the foolish novels of Charlotte Yonge and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Given the opportunity to study science, you converse with conjurors wearing cheesecloth and phosphorescent paint. Confronted by the glories of Gothic architecture, you admire instead a cheap imitation of it, and confronted by the truth, you stamp your foot like a spoilt child and demand to be told fairy stories.””

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 22 (p. 374)

“Servants don’t travel with their employers.”
“How do they do without them?”

”They don’t.”

Chapter 18 (pp. 317-318)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998)

“Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.”

Source: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 3 (p. 117)

“Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.”

Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 35 (p. 563)

“They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?”

Colin whispered behind his order of service.
“It’s late twentieth century atonal,” Dunworthy whispered back. “It’s supposed to sound dreadful.”
Source: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 219)

“A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.”

Source: Short fiction, Fire Watch (1985), The Sidon in the Mirror (p. 161)

Similar authors

Robert A. Heinlein photo
Robert A. Heinlein 557
American science fiction author
Isaac Asimov photo
Isaac Asimov 303
American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni…
Arthur C. Clarke photo
Arthur C. Clarke 207
British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, u…
Frank Herbert photo
Frank Herbert 158
American writer
Ray Bradbury photo
Ray Bradbury 401
American writer
David Foster Wallace photo
David Foster Wallace 185
American fiction writer and essayist
George Raymond Richard Martin photo
George Raymond Richard Martin 35
American writer, screenwriter and television producer
Carl Sagan photo
Carl Sagan 365
American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed…
L. Ron Hubbard photo
L. Ron Hubbard 85
American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, …
Jack London photo
Jack London 77
American author, journalist, and social activist