A biography for Gail Carrigerhasn’t been written yet.
“To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.”
“Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.”
“We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.”
“I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.”
“Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?”
“And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?”
“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”
“Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.”
“Trust is a lot to ask of someone.”
“I like fish," chirruped Tunstell."Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?""Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim.”
“I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.”
“Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.”
“We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.”
“I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.”
“To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.”
“I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.”
“Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.”
“...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!”
“The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.”
“At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.”