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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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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 began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, He didn't hit me.
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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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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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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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