Anne McCaffrey's Quotes
Born: 1926-04-01
Profession: Author
Nation: American
Biography of 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.
Tags: Great, Line, TalkI 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.
Tags: Short, Time, WordsI 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.
Tags: Enough, Good, StartMake no judgements where you have no compassion.
Tags: Compassion, JudgementsThat'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.
Tags: After, Others, WritingI 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.
Tags: Might, View, WholeThe 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.
Tags: Felt, Mean, StoryBut 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.
Tags: Cannot, End, ReadBecause we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
Tags: Living, Mind, ProblemsAt age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
Tags: Age, Help, SomeoneI did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
Tags: Chance, Child, SchoolI didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
Tags: Anyway, Happened, WriterI do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
Tags: Freedom, Someone, WritingI 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.
Tags: Another, Books, OftenI have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
Tags: Books, Happens, ReadI have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
Tags: Goes, Used, WritingPeople have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
Tags: Else, Life, TellThat's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
Tags: Beginning, Career, StoryWhat I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
Tags: Between, Food, WritingWriting 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.
Tags: Life, Used, WritingBut I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
Tags: Living, Love, Words