Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

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• Elizabeth Moon:

  In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

• Elizabeth Moon:

  It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

• Elizabeth Moon:

  There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old pers

• Elizabeth Moon:

  Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old a

• Elizabeth Moon:

  Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open

• Elizabeth Moon:

  Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

• Elizabeth Moon:

  When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

• Elizabeth Moon:

  I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go alo

• Elizabeth Moon:

  One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

• Elizabeth Moon:

  I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy s