Anne McCaffrey Quotes

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.

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.

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 you want to go there.

That’s such a thrill – a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it’s still packin’ the house.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based… what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?