Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 2, 1949

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

Lois McMaster Bujold