Top 28 Quotes by Anne McCaffrey

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.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

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.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

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

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

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.

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.

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.