Anne McCaffrey Quotes

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• James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me…
• Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents…
• Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're…
• To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.
• A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
• My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
• Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
• I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
• I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
• 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…
• I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
• I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
• At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
• 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…
• 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…
• I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage

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