Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moonis an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 March 1945
CountryUnited States of America
thinking roots community
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 small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.
thinking want cost
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.
american-author conference people rather treating
As I said at the BYU conference some years back, we make aliens out of people by treating them as alien, rather than recognizing similarities.
american-author devoted family knowledge members odd women
So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends.
american-author
I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
american-author hard hold strongly
It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
american-author hardware
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
people normal sometimes
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
real feelings everyday
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
different sometimes hard
It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.
people hours messy
People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.
character ego perception
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.
perfect bass strings
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
mother feminist mind
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.