Elizabeth Moon Quotes

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

The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too...

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

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

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

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

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

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than ju...

Normal' is a dryer setting.

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.

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.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

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

I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them g...

It's possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn't make them good.

We do not argue that war is better than peace; we are not so stupid as that. But it is not peace when cruelty reigns, when stronger men steal from farmers and craftworkers, when the child can be ensla...

If a military life was long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror—as one of her instructors had said—then civilian life seemed to be long periods of boredom interrupted by moments o...

The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no...

Miss Sevier in high school told us the police think we have knives or guns in our pockets and that they have killed people who were just trying to get out their IDs. I think that is wrong, but I read...