Elizabeth Moon Quotes

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

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.

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.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

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.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

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.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

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.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

I used to not back down from a challenge.

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

Motivation is the power behind plot.

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.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper