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

- Elizabeth Moon

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

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

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

- Elizabeth Moon

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

- Elizabeth Moon

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

- Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

- Elizabeth Moon

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

- Elizabeth Moon

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

- Elizabeth Moon

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

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

- Elizabeth Moon

I used to not back down from a challenge.

- Elizabeth Moon

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

- Elizabeth Moon

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

- Elizabeth Moon

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

- Elizabeth Moon

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

- Elizabeth Moon

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

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

- Elizabeth Moon

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

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

- Elizabeth Moon