26 Quotes by Elizabeth Moon
- My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
- My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
- Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
- 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.
- It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
- When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
- 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.
- When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
- Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
- In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
- I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
- I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
- One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
- I used to not back down from a challenge.
- I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
- I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
- I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
- I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
- I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
- I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
- Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
- 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.
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