103 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.

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.

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

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

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

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

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.

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

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