Lois McMaster Bujold

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Arhys would have protected you from this choice, as a father would a beloved child. Arhys is wrong in this. I give…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“If she finished her work—hah, now there was a fantasy, this work would never be finished, only abandoned, or, all right, passed…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“I mean,” Rosalie went on in a tone of renewed encouragement, “here’s Vormoncrief, for instance.” “Here is not Vormoncrief,” Ekaterin said firmly,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

My home is not a place, it is people.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Miles nodded agreement in principle, even though he was inclined to include Ivan himself in the category of my God the company.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“You know, if you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Commodore Koudelka had just taken a mouthful of wine to chase his last bite of salmon. The atomized spray arced nearly to…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

— Lois McMaster Bujold

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

— Lois McMaster Bujold