Top 28 Quotes by Anne McCaffrey

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.