Elizabeth Moon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Normal' is a dryer setting.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.258, Ballantine Books
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“My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.”
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“One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.”
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“I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.”
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“You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.”
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“Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.”
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“So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.”
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“My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.”
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“It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”
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“People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.154, Ballantine Books
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“No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.263, Ballantine Books
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“When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.”
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“When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.”
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“One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.150, Ballantine Books
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“To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.”
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“I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”
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“Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.”
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“This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “Marque and Reprisal”, p.37, Del Rey
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“Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books
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“It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.”
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“There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.”
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“In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.”
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“No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.”
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“But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.”
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“Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.”
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“Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.”
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“Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.140, Ballantine Books
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“I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.221, Ballantine Books
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“Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.”
-- Elizabeth MoonSource : Elizabeth Moon (1988). “Sheepfarmer's Daughter”, p.708, Baen Books
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