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28 quotes by Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. Early in McCaffrey's 46-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the...
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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... →

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Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

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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.

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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... →

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

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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

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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... →

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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

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