Lois McMaster Bujold

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.