Anne McCaffrey quotes - page 2

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house. (Anne McCaffrey)

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.

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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

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I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.

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I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

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I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.

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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept. (Anne McCaffrey)

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

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Don't leave me alone! A cry in the night, Of anguish heart-stiking, Of soul-killing fright. Live for my living Or else I must die Don't leave me alone. A world heard that cry.

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Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing Of hope and promise on dragonwing.

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be you and not someone else.

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Maybes never are.

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Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound, Though the tune was written as gay. Your voice is sad and your hands are slow And your eye meeting mine turns away.

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Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed.” ~ A thought by Lessa ~.

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When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.

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He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase. (Anne McCaffrey)

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

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Anne McCaffrey

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Occupation: American Author
Born: April 1, 1926
Died: November 21, 2011
Quotes count: 47

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