Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Pamela Dean

Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'

Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

I first read Heinlein when I was very young.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?