Facts about Elizabeth Moon

Occup.	Author
From	USA
Born	March 7, 1945
Age	80 years

Summary

Elizabeth Moon is a famous Author from USA, he/she is 80 years old and still alive, born March 7, 1945.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive. Our collection contains 27 quotes who is written / told by Elizabeth.

Related authors: Aaron Allston (Novelist)

27 Famous quotes by Elizabeth Moon

"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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"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women"

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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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"No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully"

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

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"I used to not back down from a challenge"

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"I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up"

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"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus"

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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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"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind"

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

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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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"I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it"

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"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long"

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"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction"

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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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"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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"In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over"

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

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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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"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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"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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"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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"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology"

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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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