I don’t write stories to tell readers what to think, or even tell them what I think; I write stories to show me what I think. Writing is always a journey of discovery that way, as suspenseful for me as I hope it will be for the audience.
интервью 2010 года «Geek Speak Magazine»
Источник: интервью «Geek Speak Magazine» на сайте журнала http://www.geekspeakmagazine.com/archive/issue9/features/inspiration_is_everywhere.htm
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„Читайте, или вам будет не хватать чего-то необычного.“
Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
Рональд Грин, рецензия на роман «В свободном падении»
Источник: Chicago Sun-Times, 01.05.1988.
I got the same sort of feeling reading her works as I had gotten from classic Heinlein: a renewed faith in humanity and a desire to explore and do good in the universe. Great feeling.
Тони Вейсскопф, интервью Дж. Хелферсу
Источник: The Vorkosigan Companion. 2008, p. 78.
Лоис Буджолд: Цитаты на английском языке
“Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“The wounded want power, nothing else; they think it will keep them from being hurt again.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“A skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000)
“He gave himself up to God and pressed the button.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 15 (p. 284)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 459
“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
This includes a common paraphrase of a statement which originates with military strategist Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke: "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 76
"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 54
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
Geek Speak Magazine Interview (2010)
“Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 328
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 8 (p. 128)
“If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be able to do it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
“Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 369
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 125
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
“Yes,” Vorkosigan agreed, “I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.”
Chapter 4 (p. 60)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (pp. 273-274)
“The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“Three cheers for literacy… I feel sick.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
Geek Speak Magazine Interview (2010)
“Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
This evokes a statement in "Death of a Hired Man" by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
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