Joan D. Vinge Quotes

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

 

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

 

 

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

 

 

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.

 

 

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

 

 

 

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

 

 

 

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

 

 

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

 

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

 

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.

 

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

 

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.

 

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

 

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

 

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.