16 quotes
Anyone who intrigues for power, deserves to get it!
Darkover Landfall (1972)
There has to be something wrong with a system that means you can take guilt on and off like an overcoat.
Darkover Landfall (1972)
“Good Lord, what’s that unholy racket!”
“I forgot you weren’t a Scot, darling, don’t you like the bagpipes?”
Darkover Landfall (1972)
Our world is rotten, but I’ve no confidence that the new world will be better!
The Door Through Space (1961)
The trouble is, we’ve all gotten out of the habit of connecting pregnancy and sex, we all have a civilized attitude about it now.
Darkover Landfall (1972)
If you can’t be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?
The Door Through Space (1961)
The horror genre—which I define as “perfectly horrible things happen to perfectly nice people for no reason at all.”
I suspect music is the only profession harder than writing in which to make a living.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
The Faces of Science Fiction (1984)
Hold on to what you know, Camilla. That’s all you can do; it’s known as intellectual integrity. If a thing is impossible, it’s impossible.
Darkover Landfall (1972)
A trail without beginning has no end.
The Door Through Space (1961)
A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are to hire a soapbox instead.
Spoiled brat, he thought, she’s had everything her own way all her life, and now at the first hint she might have to give way to some consideration other than her own convenience, she starts making a fuss! Damn her!
Darkover Landfall (1972)
Often, in writing, granting the basic skill of writing a literate English sentence—which can no longer be taken for granted even in college graduates—all it takes is determination.
Lancelet said, “And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference…”
The Mists of Avalon (1983)
"Only men laugh, only men dance, only men weep" - Saying on Darkover, quoted by Lew Alton
Sharra's Exile (1981)