Elizabeth Moon Quotes

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

Love, Science, Fantasy

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.
Elizabeth Moon

Real, Put, Situation

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Elizabeth Moon

Character, Ego, Novel

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

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
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Women, Mother, Open

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
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Brain, Different, Actually

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
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Good, Emotional, Become

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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Woman, Married, Along

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

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

Why, Getting, Possible

I used to not back down from a challenge.
Elizabeth Moon

Down, Challenge, Used

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
Elizabeth Moon

Writing, Fiction, Finishing

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

School, Sunday, Taught

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.
Elizabeth Moon

Future, Science, May

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

Character, Focus, Long

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
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Before, Wanted, Second

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

Science, Feeling, Real

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

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

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
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Science, Biology, Degree

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.
Elizabeth Moon

Rich, Old, Books

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.
Elizabeth Moon

Work, School, Military

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

Science, Character, 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.
Elizabeth Moon

Emotional, Person, Find

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

Working, Young, She

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 7, 1945

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