Ann Leckie Quotes

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.