Anne McCaffrey Quotes
"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."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Fans, Information, Internet, Talk)
"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."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Windows, World, Writers)
"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."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Time, Words)
"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Media, Publishing, Writers)
"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Ireland)
"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Talent)
"I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet."
- Anne McCaffrey
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Beginning, Career)
"Make no judgements where you have no compassion."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Compassion)
"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."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Emotion, Right, Will, Writer)
"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Food, Kids, Writing)
"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Life, Writing)
"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: People, Victims)
"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."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: End, Favorite, Weeping)
"I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Being, Emotion, Writing)
"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Books, Comfort, World)
"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
(Related: Books)
"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Freedom, Writing)
"I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Writer)
"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Chance, School)
"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Religion, Time, Writing)
"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Energy)
"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Life, People)
"But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Love, Ireland, Irish, Living, Speech, Will, Words)
"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."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Living, Mind, Problems, Sense, Want)
"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Age, Energy, Help, Now)
"A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it."
- Anne McCaffrey