Lois McMaster Quotes
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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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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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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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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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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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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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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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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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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All true wealth is biological.
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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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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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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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.