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Miles is... Miles close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Miles
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Mines
Mine
Close
Subordination
Opinion
Escaping
Force
Climbing
Nature

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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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