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
Lois McMaster Bujold quotes about
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 do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
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.
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard
My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.