Elizabeth Moon Quotes
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Motivation is the power behind plot.
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Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
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Normal' is a dryer setting.
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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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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
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I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.
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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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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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When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
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To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
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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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I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
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One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
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One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.
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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
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It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.