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C. J. Cherryh Biography

Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe. She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology. Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies.[citation needed]

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Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.

Door, Doors, Lawyer, Lawyers, Rattle

A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding. . . and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.

Drink, Ending, Inspirational, Loss, New Year

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

Fight, Fighting, Gain, Home, Warrior

Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.

Day, Months, Night, Writing

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

Happens, Kitchen, Poisoning, Rarely, Wells

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Daring, Hero, Irresponsible, Pull, Soldier, Warrior

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

Degrees, Reality, Remember, Slipping, Talk, Talking

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

Art, Fiction, Purest, Science, World

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

Average, Half, People, Thought

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

Fear, Logical, People, Smart, Stupid

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

Except, Hopeless, Trying

There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two.

Believe, Corrupt, Good, People, Thinking, Two

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

Enemies, Enemy, Keep, Men, Watch, Watches

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement. ' In other words if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

Ideas, Night, Science, Table, Tennis

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.

Matter, Party, Trying, Willing

Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.

Ceiling, Ceilings, Jane, Location, Matter

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

Goods, Information, Moving, Trade, Warehouse

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

Complaining, Constituency, Deal, Devil, Heat

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

Cat, Curiosity, Ignorance, Killed