Anne McCaffrey Quotes

• I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

  Anne McCaffrey

  Book, Comfort, World

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• Who wills,
  Can.
  Who tries,
  Does.
  Who loves,
  Lives.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Inspirational, Life, Trying

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Compassion

  Anne McCaffrey (1988). “The Dragonriders of Pern”, Random House LLC

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• How much can a dragon carry?
  As much as it thinks it can

  Anne McCaffrey

  Thinking, Dragons

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• Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Vocabulary, Style

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• Living is struggling to do something impossible;
  To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Struggle, Knowing, Succeed

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• Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Life, Use, Cowardice

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• Paso a paso
  Momento a momento
  Vivimos
  Un día más

  Anne McCaffrey

  Another Day, Steps, Moments

  Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey (2011). “Dragon's Time”, p.62, Random House

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• Cuente una historia a los lectores. Porque sin una historia, no haces más que utilizar palabras para demostrar que sabes encadenarlas en frases lógicas.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Together, Using Words

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• Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dragons, Sky, Space

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• The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Night, Light, Dreamer

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• A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Real, Science, Engineering

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• Fight only in direst need
  Not for lust or petty greed
  Honor those that do give birth
  Respect them well for their full worth

  Anne McCaffrey

  Fighting, Giving, Greed

  Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey (2012). “Dragon Harper”, p.104, Random House

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• To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dream, Dark, Long

  "Nerilka's Story". Book by Anne McCaffrey, March 1986.

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• 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.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Believe, Writing, Doe

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• Sobre todo le digo a la gente que no tienen que ser víctimas

  Anne McCaffrey

  Gente, Víctima

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• James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Verbs, Limits

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• 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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Use, Speech, Cadence

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• My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Eye, Hair, Green

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• 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.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Halloween, Scary, Mind

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• El caballo, el animal más noble, más bravo, más orgulloso, más valeroso y sin duda el más perverso y exasperante que el ser humano haya domesticado jamás

  Anne McCaffrey

  Horse, Animal, Courageous

  Anne McCaffrey (2002). “The Lady”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Needs, Certain

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• 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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Thinking, Views, Needs

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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dog, Horse, Writing

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• 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

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stories, Ships, My Favorite

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