Quotes from Elizabeth Moon

Could anything so handsome, so decorative, so…so enthusiastic…possibly be useful?

Besides . . . a mine is a terrible thing to waste.

It is easy to fool people into thinking I am like everyone else in encounters like this. If the other person likes to talk, as this woman did, it is easier. All I have to say are a few conventional things and smile, and it is done.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

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

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

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

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.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

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

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

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

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

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.

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

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

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

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.

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

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.