Joan D. Vinge

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what…

— Joan D. Vinge

“Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown”

— Joan D. Vinge

“You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away.”

— Joan D. Vinge

“Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and…

— Joan D. Vinge

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was…

— Joan D. Vinge

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in…

— Joan D. Vinge

“I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the…

— Joan D. Vinge

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus…

— Joan D. Vinge

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

— Joan D. Vinge

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

— Joan D. Vinge

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations,…

— Joan D. Vinge

“A szépsége még mindig ugyanúgy lenyűgözte Kait, mint fiúkorában, bár nem a ruhái élénk színe, és ne is gyönyörű finoman metszett arca…

— Joan D. Vinge

“Minden napjukat betöltötte az aware, a szívbe markoló fájdalom, amely kibogozhatatlanul összefonódik minden olyan pillanattal, amikor a lélek látszólag tökéletes egyensúlyba kerül,…

— Joan D. Vinge

“Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that... that gentleness isn't... weakness.”

— Joan D. Vinge

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

— Joan D. Vinge

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

— Joan D. Vinge

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural…

— Joan D. Vinge

All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.

— Joan D. Vinge

There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the…

— Joan D. Vinge

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

— Joan D. Vinge

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

— Joan D. Vinge

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes…

— Joan D. Vinge

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely…

— Joan D. Vinge

“Aztán valahol a végtele kékségben két lélek útjai keresztezik egymást... ő pedig úgy veszi majd észre egy idegen szemében a saját szíve…

— Joan D. Vinge

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

— Joan D. Vinge