Words matter. These are the best Anne McCaffrey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mostly I’m telling people that they don’t have to be victims.
I’m very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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.
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based… what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
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.
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
I didn’t raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
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.
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.
A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
That’s such a thrill – a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it’s still packin’ the house.
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.
