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Joan D. Vinge

Joan D. Vinge

American Author

Born: Apr 2, 1948

Also Myth Own Queen Time Write

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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. Joan D. Vinge

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

Time Behavior Maddening Make Contradictions Same Human Same Time Human Behavior Fascinating

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. Joan D. Vinge

Life You Kind Vital Developed Studying Anthropology Existence Listed Human Which Holistic Human Existence Aspects View Necessary

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

Immortality Mortality Obsession Because Human Chose Universal

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

Political Write Didactic Want

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. Joan D. Vinge

Goddess Our Emerging Throughout Unconscious Over Like Venus Cultures Stories Themes Ages Certain Sea Disparate Basic Widely

There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level. Joan D. Vinge

Free Lunch Free Lunch Least Karmic Thing Level

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning. Joan D. Vinge

Time Myth Naked Own Relate Easily More Could Traditions Listeners Clothed Storytellers Meaning Body Each Each Time Deeper Deeper Meaning

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. Joan D. Vinge

Strong First Thinking Characters Strong Female About Write Had Female Female Characters Lot Wanted After Decided Story Next Novel

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

Balance Own Ancestors Human Established Upsetting Humans Fragile

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

Moon Girl Sets Out Naive Also She Native

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large. Joan D. Vinge

Natural Queen World Own Universe Our Seek About Also Became Within Equilibrium Snow Story Natural World Large Even Lives Need

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever. Joan D. Vinge

You Path Every Abandon Must Another Forever Choose

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. Joan D. Vinge

Myth is, after all, the neverending story. Joan D. Vinge

Myth After Story

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