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
Лоис Буджолд знаменитые цитаты
свет
Источник: романы
рвота
Источник: романы
„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
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 58
"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 54
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees — M. S., M. D., Ph. D…”
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 61
“I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“Let he who is without sin cast the first lure.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“Parallels, spirals, and reflections are some of my favorite literary patterns.”
"Putting It Together" p. 20
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
“I don't hate him. I can't say I worship him, either. But when he's cut, I bleed.”
She paused a long time, and looked up to meet her mother’s eyes squarely. “But when he’s cut, I bleed.”
Chapter 12 (p. 184)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“Mine is not a theology of the elect. I intend to preach to the masses. Even the sinners.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
“If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 40)
“I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
“It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
This seems to be derived from a statement attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, and which she regularly used in her public addresses: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379