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
rockets doe initiative
This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
one-thing better-than-you be-you
One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.
hands
To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.
ignorance light darkness
I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.
motivation plot behinds
Motivation is the power behind plot.
real past 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.
book character people
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.
military school texas
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
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.
life order autism
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
struggle character chance
Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.
heart fighting sheep
Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.
drug rattlesnakes bother
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
jobs children writing
What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.