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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.

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

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

This has the potential to be a rolling doughnut,

Motivation is the power behind plot.

Paks, if you've got a fault it's that you're too willing to be ruled. I know what you'll say - you'll say that's how a good soldier is.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

My advice is, the next time you see someone you think you need to rescue, walk quickly away on the far side of the street.

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

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

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

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

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

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

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

You have fought a hard battle, in hard conditions, and held a position until help came. Think of it like that.

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

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

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.
The Speed of Dark

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I like swordwork. It's like riding, that way - it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

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

Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine.

Wanting peace does not bring it ... and if trouble comes, a king or a realm must be prepared.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

You'll find, someday," Paks found herself saying, "that your own tongue cuts you worse than any blade. I

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

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

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

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

His implant woke him at three A.M. local time, when he was, for reasons he never understood, dreaming about dancing fish.

Nobody but the residents would call this sector the Hub Worlds, unless they thought the rest of the wheel had fallen off.

it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others.

I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.

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

It is all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.

Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you.

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

Apparently they didn't realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We

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

And as Paksenarrion is there, perhaps she will ride back with me to Fin Panir to see the necklace.

Of death I am as certain as any mortal, Ammerlin, but defeat is certain only in despair.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

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

If you cannot read it, how could you catalog it?

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.

You were not bred to avoid trouble," Tobai said. "Your family takes it on, shakes it like a dog shaking a rat, and tosses it to one side.

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

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

Free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others.

I used to not back down from a challenge.