Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Learning
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''Write what you know' is a tautology. You have no choice -- you have to write what you know, and in order to write something new, you have to learn something new.' Similar to a quote from the 1996 Boskone convention when Bujold was Guest of Honor.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force.
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'It didn't work, so let's do it some more'? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don't know what they call it in civilian life.
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Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.
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Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.