Malinda Lo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now
-- Malinda Lo

#Choices #Decision
Traditional murder mysteries are interesting because they're ostensibly about a horrible thing - murder - but underneath that, they're about restoring order to a messed-up world. By the end of a whodunit, the detective has taken the reader through all the reasons why this terrible thing happened. Through that explanation, and by seeing the killer captured, the reader feels a sense of catharsis.
-- Malinda Lo

#Taken #Interesting #World
I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their personal experiences, because all writing is based on personal experience. I may not have gone on an epic quest through a haunted forest, but the feelings in my books are often based on feelings I've had. Real-life events, in fantasy and science fiction, can take on metaphorical significance that they can't in a so-called realistic novel.
-- Malinda Lo

#Book #Writing #Epic
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into their work. The fact is that telling a story is a transformative experience. There is rarely a one-to-one translation onto the page unless you're writing memoir, and even then, memory is unreliable. I think that the best books feel emotionally true, and that truth has to be rooted in real-world experience.
-- Malinda Lo

#Memories #Believe #Book

Our choices determine our destiny
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,
Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.
It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

Malinda Lo famous quotes

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