Top 28 Quotes by Anne McCaffrey

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

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.

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.

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.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

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

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.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.