Anne McCaffrey Quotes

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Book, Comfort, World

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• Who wills,
  Can.
  Who tries,
  Does.
  Who loves,
  Lives.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Inspirational, Life, Trying

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Compassion

  Anne McCaffrey (1988). “The Dragonriders of Pern”, Random House LLC

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• Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Vocabulary, Style

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• How much can a dragon carry?
  As much as it thinks it can

  Anne McCaffrey

  Thinking, Dragons

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• Living is struggling to do something impossible;
  To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Struggle, Knowing, Succeed

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• Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Life, Use, Cowardice

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• Step by step
  Moment by moment
  We live through
  Another day

  Anne McCaffrey

  Another Day, Steps, Moments

  Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey (2011). “Dragon's Time”, p.62, Random House

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• Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Together, Using Words

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• Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dragons, Sky, Space

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• The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Night, Light, Dreamer

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Real, Science, Engineering

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• 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.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Believe, Writing, Doe

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  People, Victim

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• But 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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Use, Speech, Cadence

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• To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dream, Dark, Long

  "Nerilka's Story". Book by Anne McCaffrey, March 1986.

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• My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Eye, Hair, Green

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• James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Verbs, Limits

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• Fight only in direst need
  Not for lust or petty greed
  Honor those that do give birth
  Respect them well for their full worth

  Anne McCaffrey

  Fighting, Giving, Greed

  Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey (2012). “Dragon Harper”, p.104, Random House

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• Because 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.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Halloween, Scary, Mind

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• The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

  Anne McCaffrey

  Horse, Animal, Courageous

  Anne McCaffrey (2002). “The Lady”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Thinking, Views, Needs

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• I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Needs, Certain

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• What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dog, Horse, Writing

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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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