“Inventing as you go, are you?”

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, book The Hallowed Hunt

“Yes, I am quite godlike in that way, if no other.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 18 (p. 328)

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Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

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