Elizabeth Moon

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

— Elizabeth Moon

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark…

— Elizabeth Moon

“I try so hard, and it is still not working. I wear the same clothes as the others. I say the same…

— Elizabeth Moon

“You were not bred to avoid trouble,” Tobai said. “Your family takes it on, shakes it like a dog shaking a rat,…

— Elizabeth Moon

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

— Elizabeth Moon

“Never regret the stupidity of enemies,”

— Elizabeth Moon

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

— Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

— Elizabeth Moon

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because…

— Elizabeth Moon

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

— Elizabeth Moon

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

— Elizabeth Moon

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old…

— Elizabeth Moon

“But look at it this way. Anything is a commodity to someone. In a very large universe, your aunt Gracie’s cannonballs may…

— Elizabeth Moon

Motivation is the power behind plot.

— Elizabeth Moon

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

— Elizabeth Moon

“Next,” she said, “we have to come up with tactics that work.” “We could just do something stupid again, wait for them…

— Elizabeth Moon

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having…

— Elizabeth Moon

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the…

— Elizabeth Moon

“But what about the horses? Have they always had horses here?" "Probably. Colonial words usually have horses; they're cheap local transportation,self-replicating.”

— Elizabeth Moon

“You don't have to,' I say. 'You are normal. You have a job with tenure. You have Lucia and this house.' I…

— Elizabeth Moon