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Elizabeth Moon

"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."

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"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."

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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
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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."
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"In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over."
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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."
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"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."
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"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
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"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."
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"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
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"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
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"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."
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