Action Quote by Karen Traviss

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

— Karen Traviss

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

— 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, not just…

— Karen Traviss

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

— 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 honourable concept…

— 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 a news…

— 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] "Yep, he's…

— Karen Traviss

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

— 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 not reading…

— 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 you pregnant?…

— 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 and freedom…

— Karen Traviss