Elizabeth Moon quotes

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? (Elizabeth Moon)
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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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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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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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
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Normal' is a dryer setting.
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I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
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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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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
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I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up. (Elizabeth Moon)
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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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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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
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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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When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
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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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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. (Elizabeth Moon)
I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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I used to not back down from a challenge.
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
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