Top 28 Quotes by Anne McCaffrey

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

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.