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Quotes by Elizabeth Moon - (20 quotes)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Colour category:

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. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Criticism category:

- Marque and Reprisal...
This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Eccentricity category:

'Normal' is a dryer setting. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Education category:

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Ego category:

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

Elizabeth Moon - From the Fantasy category:

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)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Fantasy category:

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Focus category:

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

Elizabeth Moon - From the Future category:

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)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Gender category:

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Gender category:

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Motivation category:

Motivation is the power behind plot. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Music category:

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

Elizabeth Moon - From the Order category:

-The Speed of Dark...
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Questions category:

-The Speed of Dark...
I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Struggle category:

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Work category:

-Oath of Fealty...
To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Worth category:

-The Speed of Dark...
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. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Writing category:

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. (Elizabeth Moon)

Elizabeth Moon - From the Writing category:

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. (Elizabeth Moon)