Prime Prattle in Seattle

First of all, happy fourteenth birthday to SleuthSayers! I don't think we look a day over twelve.

Last time I talked about attending the World Science Fiction Conference in Seattle in August.  Here are my favorite quotations from that event.  As usual they are guaranteed one hundred percent context-free!

"I think genre is basically an outmoded method of organizing record stores." -Mollylele

"Since movement is the best medicine I recommend street fights." - M.T. Zimny

"The best time to publish your book is next year." - Andy Peloquin

"The disabled don't have traditions in the traditional sense." -Annie Carl 

"In my experience Facebook ads are a great way to spend money." - Claire E. Jones

"Nobody owns culture but it is a sacred spiritual thing that people are assigned responsibility for." - Gregg Castro

"That's how we define what a species is: how they sound when you step on them." - H.E. Milla

"I think alternative history is an amazing tool that should be used in schools to teach history." - Yasser Bahjatt

"We're all descended from the original Adam and Eve who were sperm whales. Count the ribs. It's true!" - M.T. Zimny

"Your characters can't know things that didn't happen." - Nick Fraser

"Disabled archaeologists and anthropologists are looking for things that able ones aren't." - K. Tempest Bradford

"You can't judge a book by its cover but you can sure as hell sell a lot of copies." - Tod McCoy

"Would you like to have a dystopia? If so, you want to have a corporation that owns the seeds." - Jennifer Rhorer

"I am an apocoptimistic writer." -Robert L. Slater

"It's almost like there are microclimates of politics in the Northwest." - Peter Crozier

"I am always telling authors 'Your story starts in Chapter Four.'" - Atlin Merrick

"I don't always recommend gatekeeping, unless you're a woman and you want to gatekeep." - Sadie Hartmann

"We could add a new letter to LGBTQ. V for villainsexual." - Evan J. Peterson

"I'm not a scientist. It doesn't have to make sense for me." - Jennifer Rhorer

"Make sure you understand that the book you wrote is not the book you planned to write." - Andy Peloquin

"Hand-waving is the best solution we have to this problem." - Sue Burke

"In Indian country we call fry bread Indian crap." - Gregg Castro

"Be professional before you're professional." -Atlin Merrick

"I think of a song as a thesis and every part of it proves something." - Alison Belle Bews

"I am the dumbest person up here, but I have the strongest mic." - M.T. Zimny

"Reach out to someone and say 'I don't know shit' and they'll say 'No shit you don't know shit.'" - Bryce O'Connor