In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

~ Geoff Ryman

Geoff Ryman Blogging Science Fiction Stories The Self Writing

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

~ Geoff Ryman

Geoff Ryman Fantasy History

I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.

~ Geoff Ryman

Geoff Ryman Albert Einstein Body Language Charlie Chaplin History Memory

Heaven is a place where you cannot change and nothing can ever happen, so the things you love are always eternal. Hell is exactly the same.

~ Geoff Ryman

Geoff Ryman Heaven Hell

Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.

~ Geoff Ryman

Geoff Ryman Growing Up Milena Survivor The Child Garden

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.

~ Geoff Ryman

Geoff Ryman Age Aging Books Old Age Reading Writing

Milena found Cilia outside, holding her bamboo box. Milena hugged her. ‘I’m sorry about your shins,’ she said. Milena lifted the lid of the box, and saw it, the precious paper, ruled in staves. People were generous. Milena had never believed that.

~ Geoff Ryman

Geoff Ryman Beliefs Generous Generous People Generousity People