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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#course #grew #i #like #up

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#bother #getting #i #like #pick

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#finishing #i #writing

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#fiction #future #get #kind #logical

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#back to school #biology #degree #did #earned

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#books #character #fantasy #few #fiction

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#break #emotional #emotionally #fans #find

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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