140 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.

It’s easier to flatter a man than fight him.

I didn’t mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated.

Ramoth’s huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate.

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.

Complacency and ignorance,” Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. “A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion.

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.

The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F’lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F’nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, in number, twelve.” F’lar liked that touch of F’nor’s, totting up the wing strength, as if Fax were incapable of counting.