Lois McMaster
Lois McMaster
wikipedia dangerous
Wikipedia is so dangerous.
pain thinking people
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.
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.
writing careers isolated-places
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
book writing planning
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
party soul dinner
My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
growing favors merit
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
rap thinking people
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
real color black
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
pain faces embrace
The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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.
mad despair lasts
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
feet age way
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
jobs people world
The world is made by the people who show up for the job.