Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. Karen Traviss More Quotes by Karen Traviss More Quotes From Karen Traviss Long memory, short fuse, big revenge. Karen Traviss revenge memories long If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us? Karen Traviss left ifs Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me. Karen Traviss exploring-the-world writing adventure I love being pushed out of my comfort zone. Karen Traviss comfort-zone comfort love-is My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution. Karen Traviss objectivity book facts I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches. Karen Traviss avalanches roles responsibility We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters. Karen Traviss odds matter might If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all. Karen Traviss prepared ifs Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together. Karen Traviss together hands thinking If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance Karen Traviss one-day government ignorance Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying Karen Traviss nobody-cares care father If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position. Karen Traviss return fire enemy Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader. Karen Traviss day you experience life People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately. Karen Traviss game good me people Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology. Karen Traviss think technology war peace The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world. Karen Traviss nothing you care world I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years. Karen Traviss person always television years I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events. Karen Traviss need heart writing people Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next. Karen Traviss step mind work character All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one. Karen Traviss worth me journey writing
