Elizabeth Moon Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Real, People, 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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  Mother, Should, Engineers

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

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  Fog, Fantasy, Astronomy

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

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  Perfect, Bass, Strings

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

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  Mother, Feminist, Mind

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• Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

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  Past, Defense, Fantasy

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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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  Emotional, Interesting, Intellectual

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

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  Hands

  Elizabeth Moon (2010). “Oath of Fealty”, p.209, Del Rey

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• Motivation is the power behind plot.

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  Motivation, Plot, Behinds

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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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  Book, Writing, Fiction

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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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  Years, Degrees, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Yarn, Clothes, Pjs

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

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  Physics, Calculus, University

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

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  Brain, Different, Stories

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

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  School, Sunday, Taught

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• I used to not back down from a challenge.

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  Challenges, Used

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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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  Book, Character, People

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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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  Real, Past, People

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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.

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  Hope, Eye, Shine On

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• One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

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  Degrees, Biology

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• 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.

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  Writing, Eye, Blue

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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