Seanan McGuire Quotes

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I remember when I was younger, older folks would say to me, 'There are three things you don't talk about at a dinner party: religion, politics, and money.' But I think the truth is quite the opposite.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!

I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.

You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.

I want to talk about the things that people don't think you're allowed to talk about.

Neither of my parents are involved in politics or anything like that, but my dad is political, certainly, and we would have always talked about politics and religion and money, and all those things that you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table, we did.

People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.