Sheri S. Tepper Quotes
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.
All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.
Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.
Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.
We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.
A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.
No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!
They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.
