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Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps.

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This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

Begins, Doe, Ends, Initiative, Rockets

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Accordion, Bass, Cello, Perfect, String, Strings

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Allows, Defense, Defenses, Fantasy, Past

Normal' is a dryer setting.

Autism, Dryer, Normal, Setting, Settings

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Calculus, Flunked, Physics, University

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Choir, School, Sunday, Taught

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel. . . . You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

Fighting, Fit, Heart, Know, Sheep, Sheepdog

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.

Break, Emotional, Emotionally, Intellectual, Interesting

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Biology, Degree, Degrees, Science

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Boils, Children, Difficult, Easier, Jobs, Writing

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

Bother, Drug, Possible, Rattlesnakes, Regarded

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Complete, Confront, People, Real, Things, World

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

Grocery, Normal, People, Sometimes, Store, Wonder

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

Book, Character, People, Sages, Wizards

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

Beatles, Course, Courses, Grew, Grew Up

A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

Community, Grow, Lichens, Roots, Thinking

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

Degree, Degrees, Firsts, Flunked, Physicist, Years

I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. . . Maybe my questions matter.

Ignorance, Light, Maybe, Touching, Wrong

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Courses, Married, Model, Models, Sort

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

Character, Ego, Novel, Perception, Perceptions

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