Anne McCaffrey Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Encouragement, Media, Needs

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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

  Mean, Stories, Emotion

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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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Thinking, Availability, Fans

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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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Book, Age, Energy

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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

  Careers, House, Thrill

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• Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stars, Flames, Soldier

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

  Anne McCaffrey

  War, Writing, Needs

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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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stories, Ships, My Favorite

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• I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

  Anne McCaffrey

  Mean, Night, Up All Night

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• I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

  Anne McCaffrey

  Raises, Happened

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stuff, Pension, Ireland

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Tools, Emotion

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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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stupid, Writing, Good Day

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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 doodle through a novel

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Stories, Form

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Children, Writing, School

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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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Book, Needs, Mood

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Singers, Crystals, Trios

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• How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

  Anne McCaffrey

  Art, Theatre, Suitable

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• 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 an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Music, Song, People

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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?

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dragons, Gmos, People

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• 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 couldn't appreciate her music - it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Music, Running, Hard Work

  "Dragonsinger".

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