Elizabeth Moon Quotes
"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: First, Years)
"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
(Related: Science, Feeling, Fiction, World)
"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Mother, Mind, Now)
"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
(Related: People, Books, Old)
"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
(Related: Work, Military, School, University)
"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Science, Character, Being, Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Old)
"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
(Related: Fans, Writers)
"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Character, Focus)
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Books, Fiction)
"No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully."
- Elizabeth Moon
"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
(Related: People, Fantasy, World)
"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Hardware)
"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Physics, University)
"In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Character, Ego, Perceptions)
"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: School)
"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Fiction, Writing)
"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Science)
"I used to not back down from a challenge."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Challenge)
"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Drugs)
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Love, Science, Astronomy, Fantasy)
"I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up."
- Elizabeth Moon
"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Being, Woman)
"I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it."
- Elizabeth Moon
"I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain."
- Elizabeth Moon
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Women, Mother, Open)
"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
(Related: Science, Fiction, Future, May)