Joan D. Vinge Quotes
28 Joan D. Vinge quotes:
"Myth is, after all, the neverending story."
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"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."
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"A story told from an entirely alien point of view would read like one long typographical error and quickly lose the interest of any human reader."
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"And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large."
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"As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones."
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"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"
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"Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction."
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"But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives."
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"Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future."
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"Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear."
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"For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever."
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"Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write."
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"Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established."
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"Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end."
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"I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant."
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"I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it."
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"Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle."
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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
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"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
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"Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life."
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