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
Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
You try to give away what you want yourself.
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.