Top 19 Mary Robinette Kowal Quotes
#1. Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.
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#3. The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration.
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#4. I've left it unedited, which means you'll get to see the [brackets] I insert to remind myself to research things or fix things later. In this case, I fixed things by writing a different story.
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#5. ...you must not depreciate the power of well-fitted breeches upon a lady's admiration.
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#6. It's a hard thing to look at something you want and to know that the right choice is to turn it down.
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#7. One must not put trust in novelists, Beth; they create worlds to fit their own needs and drive their characters mad in doing it.
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#9. She sorted through the mail and held one elegant, hot-pressed envelope out to Jane. "Here is one for David. Would you prefer me to leave it here, or have it sent over to him?
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#10. He thinks I should go." My chest hurt even considering it. But I couldn't stop thinking about the mission. "He knows it's the only way I'll get back into space.
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#11. Nothing today had done her any real harm, yet she felt as though her nerves had been flayed and left out for the tanner.
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#12. I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.
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#13. There then passed a period of time in which Jane said many unutterable things.
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#14. Mama! They must take ship. It is an island. One does not simply walk into Murano.
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#15. Jane shared his sentiment, but was hard-pressed not to laugh at her husband's inventive turns of phrase - her favourite was "goat-licking amateur," followed closely by "mongrel's handmaiden.
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#16. Then Sister Aquinata abandoned the nonviolent methods and produced a rolling pin from somewhere.
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#17. It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.
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#19. I wanted to. I wanted to get off the planet and back into space and not have to watch him die. Not have to watch him lose control of his body piece by piece.
And I wanted to stay here and be with him and steal every moment left that he had breath in his body.
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