Lois McMaster Quotes
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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Koudelka looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" Cordelia met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.