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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Actually Brain Come Different Different Kinds Different Parts Feel Kinds Out Parts Stories

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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Between Break Emotional Emotionally Fans Find Intellectual Interesting Myself Only Other Person Responds Some Things Traditional Writers

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I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: About Although Become Emotional Good Math Very I Can

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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.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: About Always Connected Everyday Feeling Fiction Our Personal Real Real World Science Science Fiction Some The Real World Way World

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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Far Fiction Future Get Kind Logical May Science Science Fiction Some Way Where

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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.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Break Complete Confront Confronted Fantasy Make People Put Real Real World Situation The Real World Things Where World Would You

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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.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Again Against Also Because Certain Encountered Explicit Fantasy Get Life Make Past People Problems Real Real Life Set Social Social Problems Up Which Would You

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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Before Calculus Came Degree First Flunked Had Physicist Second Wanted Years

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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Calculus Flunked Hard Major Physics Rice University You

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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.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Back Back To School Biology Degree Did Earned Got Graduate Military Out School Some Texas Then University Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 7th, 1945

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