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
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Источник: романы
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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
“Old age," she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010)
“I am not her to vent my feelings. I am here to achieve my goals.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)
“You are a most excellent lawyer, for a dead man.”
Источник: Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 296
“Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 11 (p. 162)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 224
“Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“The most interesting question of history is always, What were these people thinking?”
Vorkosigan Saga, (2012)
“I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.”
This evokes the statement by Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 31
“"Let's see what happens." Yes, let's.”
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
"Publishing, Writing, and Authoring", p. 75
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.”
"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 60
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“It's never too late while you're breathing.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“I can't quit, once I've started. I've been told I'm pathologically persistent. I can't quit.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
"Putting It Together" p. 6
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 60
“Just because we're adults doesn't automatically mean we can save you…”
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)