Top 28 Quotes by Anne McCaffrey

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

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.

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.

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.