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27 quotes by Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Moon at the 2013 National Book Festival Born (1945-03-07) March 7, 1945 (age 69) McAllen, Texas, USA Occupation Novelist Nationality American Period June 1, 1988 – present Genre Military science fiction, science fiction, fantasy Spouse Richard Sloan Moon (1969–present) Website sff.net/people/Elizabeth.Moon/ Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her novel The Speed of Dark won...
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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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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... →

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

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

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

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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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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... →

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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... →

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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 was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

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

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