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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: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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Discovering

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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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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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