Quote:Karen Traviss
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- JediMasterJesse2000: "Did ALL the clones have a Mando upbringing?"
Karen Traviss: "No, and that's actually mentioned in TZ so many times I can't understand how you missed it. All they have is Vode An to march to - two or three verses. (Much as I can sing the French national anthem and the Israeli one, without having been raised French or Israeli. And that's about it...it's easy to pick up sounds even without flash learning. Every army needs a march. They had flash learning. QED.)
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- From the StarWars.com forum, 5-3-2006[1]
- "I say again: find me hard data beyond the Saxton books."
- Karen Traviss, 4-10-2006, from the Galactic Senate forum [2]
- "My tie-ins are aimed at an adult audience, but they still have to be suitable for young adult readers, so I couldn’t fall back on my usual soldierly dialogue of profanity. But I maintained a lot of solid science, and dealt with issues like rape, atrocities, shooting prisoners, and all the other ugly areas of war."
- Karen Traviss, from the Emerald City online magazine, 3-2006 [3] Google cache
- "It's about exploitation, hope, dignity, and identity; it's about what's left inside when everything is taken from you."
- Karen Traviss, on Triple Zero from her Amazon.com blog, 2-28-2006 [4]
- "Well, I haven't actually read any [Star Wars books] - started on a few, leafed through a few, but by and large, nada. Seriously. My inability to read is well known - I hate reading, and I can't absorb data from fiction."
- Karen Traviss, from the Galactic Senate forum, 2-26-2006 [5]
- "I promised SW readers that I would never, ever dumb down anything and that I'd treat the universe with the same effort and respect that I would my own creator-copyright material. You're getting the same Traviss that you get in City of Pearl. Anything less would be insulting your intelligence, and I'm not even sure I know how to 'write down' anyway. I only have an on-off switch, not a dial; I do, or I don't do, to paraphrase Yoda."
- Karen Traviss, from her LiveJournal, 2-26-2006 [6] Google cache [7] Google cache
- "And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair. The nearest most people come to combat is reading about it in a novel, or watching the sanitised version on TV news, which is why I feel it's my duty to portray soldiers honestly and accurately in fiction."
- Karen Traviss, from the StarWars.com forum, 1-17-2006 [8]
- "I'm upping my medication before it's too late. I'll be measuring Vader's bloody Super Star Destroyer next."
- Karen Traviss, from her LiveJournal, 11-13-2005 [9] [10] Google cache
- "I only write science fiction, and even when I write Star Wars I still treat it as SF and not fantasy. I think you can write Star Wars either way, and that's the good thing about it: it's a big enough universe to allow a very wide range of interpretations."
- Karen Traviss, from an interview on SithClan.net, 9-15-2005 [11]
- "jedi_haiku and I are standing by for the inevitable wave of arguments that will follow the article, but we did it to set down the continuity about the clone army and put an end to a few debates. Common sense tells me this will never happen, and that folks wouldn't find it much fun if it did. But it does give us the ability to brandish the document, repel all boarders, and yell: 'Because we bloody well say so!'"
- "I didn't know the first thing about SW when I was asked to write the books, and I could have just kept it at arm's length and still got paid, but I fell in love with it, and it gives me genuine plesasure. And that's important enough to me to pull the plug on everything that threatens to suck the fun out of it for me."
- From the StarWars.com forum, 7-18-2006[14]
- "It's fiction. None of it happened; none of it matters. The only thing that matters is the pleasure and diversion it gives, and any real truths of life it can illuminate and make you ponder upon or draw comfort from. … If your pleasure is derived from small irrelevant detail and not from characters, read bus timetables."
- ―Karen Traviss, on continuity and The Clone Wars.[src]
