Anne McCaffrey Quotes
29 Anne McCaffrey quotes:
"I don't keep up with developments, but I do find an expert in any field in which I must explain myself and the science involved."
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"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."
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"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
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"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims."
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"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."
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"I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway."
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"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."
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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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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 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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"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"
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"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
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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 and makes us want to live there."
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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 did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
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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 - and it takes a lot - to write."
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"I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet."
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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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"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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