Karen Traviss

“We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the…

— Karen Traviss

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have…

— Karen Traviss

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it,…

— Karen Traviss

“Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse…

— Karen Traviss

“Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an…

— Karen Traviss

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm…

— Karen Traviss

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual…

— Karen Traviss

“And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.”

— Karen Traviss

“Any sign of what killed him, Scorch?" "Let's ask Sev. He's a dead-body-ologist." [Sev examines the body and its arm falls off]…

— Karen Traviss

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write -…

— Karen Traviss

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for…

— Karen Traviss

“Oh, you are a little ray of sunshine today, aren’t you? Now, look at your progesterone levels. Still higher than normal. Are…

— Karen Traviss

“Sergeant Skirata said that civvies didn't have a clue, and that it was alright for them to have lofty ideas about peace…

— Karen Traviss

“So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when…

— Karen Traviss

“They said the world was divided into those folks who ran away from danger, and those who ran toward it.”

— Karen Traviss

“Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....”

— Karen Traviss

“I shall remain vigilant and unyielding in my pursuit of the enemies of the Coalition. I will defend and maintain the Order…

— Karen Traviss

“savored the bizarre moment of epiphany; he had a sister, of sorts. And he had a wife, too, and a father, a…

— Karen Traviss

“Good grief, Rex, doesn't Skywalker tell his underlings to put clothes on? What does he think this is, a cruise liner?" It…

— Karen Traviss

“...I tell you this: think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act…

— Karen Traviss

“Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities. -Aras”

— Karen Traviss

“We don’t do psyop. We’ve never worked with Spartans before. And we’re definitely not trained for this spook stuff. But how hard…

— Karen Traviss

“she worried that Jedi raised other Jedi in a constant soulless cycle of detached, cold indifference,”

— Karen Traviss

“Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid.”

— Karen Traviss

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

— Karen Traviss