Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujoldis an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record, not counting his Retro Hugo. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 November 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
You have to be careful who you let define your good.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.