Anne McCaffrey Quotes

• A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

  Anne McCaffrey

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• 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

• 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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• 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

• 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.

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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.

  Anne McCaffrey

• 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

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

  Anne McCaffrey

• Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

  Anne McCaffrey

• I’m very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

  Anne McCaffrey

• I’m 78, I’m on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

  Anne McCaffrey

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Anne McCaffrey

• 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

• I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

  Anne McCaffrey

• I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

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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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Anne McCaffrey (29)

Birth:	1st April, 1926
Death:	21st November, 2011
Nationality:	American, Irish
Profession:	Writer

About

Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She 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 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006.

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