140 Quotes by Anne McCaffrey

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

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

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 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 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

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.

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

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