Lois McMaster
Lois McMaster
book writing planning
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
writing careers isolated-places
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
inspiration writing valleys
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
writing best-things including
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
book character writing
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
downhill flowing imagine wave
They imagine they're the wave of the future, but it's only sewage flowing downhill
answers curses savage
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know
good-friend son lost-friendship
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
garden measurement delight
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
peace war slides
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
matter genius mets
All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.
tests failing irrevocable
I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
care patient given
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.