Quotes by Elizabeth Moon - Page 1

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
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Finishing
Writing Fiction
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One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
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Biology
Degree
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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Choir
Sunday
Sunday School
Directed
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
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Interestingly
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I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
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Math
Although
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
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Calculus
Physics
Rice
University
Flunked
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
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Strongly
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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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Novel
Perceptions
Submerge
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
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Accordion
Beautifully
Cello
String
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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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Different Kinds
Parts
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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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Wanting
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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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Hardware
Hardware Store
Store
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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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Calculus
Physicist
Degree
Flunked
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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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Married
Model
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
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Science
Character
Fantasy
Old Person
Science Fiction
Books
Main
Main Character
Relatively
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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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Astronomy
Biomedical
Fantasy
Setting
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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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Bother
Why Bother
Somewhat
Pick
Regarded
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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.
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Logical
Science Fiction
Logical Way
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
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Connected
Everyday
Real World
Science Fiction
Science World Way
Science Always World
Personal Feeling
The Real World
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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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Brilliant
Including
Rich People
Wizards
Me People Rich
Me Rich People
Main
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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 graduate work in it.
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Biology
Military
Texas
University
Back To School
Degree
Earned
Graduate
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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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Fantasy
Real World
Complete
Confront
The Real World
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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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Traditional
Emotionally
Writers
Responds
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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 up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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Explicit
Fantasy
Real Life
Social Problems
Encountered
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