Nancy Springer Quotes

United States, Author
1948

Nancy Connor Springer is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award. She also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novels Toughing It and Looking for Jamie Bridger, in addition to receiving the Carolyn W. Field award for I am Mordred. A prolific author, she has written more than fifty books over a career that has spanned nearly four decades.

Also known as Science Fiction Writer, Novelist

To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.

Nancy Springer
- Man
- Woman
- Ability
What's life without a spice of stupidity.

Nancy Springer
- Life
- Stupidity
- Spice

Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.

Nancy Springer
Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

Nancy Springer
- Crazy
- Artist
- Conform
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

Nancy Springer
Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

Nancy Springer
- Life
- Half
- Fathers
Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

Nancy Springer
- Name
- Call
- Upbringing
Nothing last forever except change.

Nancy Springer
- Change
- Forever
- Except

The only way for me to be safe and free was to be - be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.

Nancy Springer
- Free
- Name
- Safe
Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior.

Nancy Springer
- Woman
- Equal
- Superior