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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Discovering
Planning
Process
Book
Writing

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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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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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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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All true wealth is biological.
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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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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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