Quotes by Elizabeth Moon

About Elizabeth Moon:

Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.
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I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

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The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there fir...

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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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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

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

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When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

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

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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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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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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 was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

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I used to not back down from a challenge.

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

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

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

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameElizabeth Moon
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMarch 17, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionOfficer; Author; Novelist
  • AwardsNebula Award; Compton Crook Award