I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.
Emily BartonI was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.
Emily BartonI think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a country or across time contributing to this massive project of documenting and reimagining our world.
Emily BartonNobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.
Emily Barton