All Joan D. Vinge Quotes
- For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever. Abandon
- Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. Fear
- These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion… Age
- And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within… Became
- Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect. Death
- Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. Anthropology
- The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as… Beyond
- Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level. Free
- Myth is, after all, the neverending story. All
- As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently… Call
- Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. Chose
- Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto… Bestseller
- Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea… Age
- Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age… Age
- There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the… All
- But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich… Along
- Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future. Born
- Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard… All
- Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. Ancestor
- Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end. Creatures
- I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with… Character
- Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle. Carbuncle
- Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us… Earth
- Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of… All
- What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time. All