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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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” - Jimi Hendrix, “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.
I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.