Elizabeth Moon Quotes
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Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.
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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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There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
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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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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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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.
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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
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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.
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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.
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People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.
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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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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. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.
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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
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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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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
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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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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.
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
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I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
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I used to not back down from a challenge.
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I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
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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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This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
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Motivation is the power behind plot.