Top 27 Quotes by Elizabeth Moon

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

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

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.

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

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

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

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

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

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.

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