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  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

    Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.140, Ballantine Books
  • When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

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

  • Motivation is the power behind plot.

  • Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.

    Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books
  • What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

  • Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

    Elizabeth Moon (1988). “Sheepfarmer's Daughter”, p.708, Baen Books
  • 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.

    Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.263, Ballantine Books
  • I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

  • 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.

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

  • Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

  • I used to not back down from a challenge.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.1, Ballantine Books
  • To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

    Elizabeth Moon (2010). “Oath of Fealty”, p.209, Del Rey
  • My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

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

    Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.221, Ballantine Books
  • Normal' is a dryer setting.

    Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.258, Ballantine Books
  • In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

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

  • 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.

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

    Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”
  • Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

    Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.66, Ballantine Books
  • I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

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