Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced — Sheri S. Tepper
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s — Sheri S. Tepper
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner — Sheri S. Tepper
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn’t satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. — Sheri S. Tepper
A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it’s going to be immortal. — Sheri S. Tepper
It may be important to write a book that doesn’t come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all. — Sheri S. Tepper