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

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

Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!

Given the infinite variety of human personalities, it was impossible to like everyone.

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition

If he isn't clean now, I don't know what clean is!

True portraits are never realistic

He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.

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

And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

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

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

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

Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

Harper to your word be true
Holder, crafter you also hew
To honesty, integrity, and respect
All others without regard to intellect

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

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

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

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

There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.

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

Some folk, too, believe what the loudest talker says. And some folk because it frightens them not to.

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

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

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.

Step by step
Moment by moment
We live through
Another day

Fire-lizard dance on wing
To the raucous song I sing.
Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,
Show me how the dragons learn.

Harper, treat your words with care
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above

There were two bronzes, three browns, a blue and two greens.

It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak.

Ridicule was a better defense than truth.

speak hard, steal the air.

Rider to your mate be true
Follow heart in deed and do
All the best your strength can find
So you will rest in heart and mind

Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing
Of hope and promise on dragonwing

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

Seed of a syphilitic she-camel,

Isn't this planet big enough for differences?

Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.

Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.

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

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

Maybes never are.

Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge.

Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears.

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.

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

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.

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

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.

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."
~ A thought by Lessa ~

A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.

If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

be you and not someone else

What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic! Master

It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it.

Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

Necessity breeds solution.

People don't change, love. React first, think later, regret at leisure. He

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

Die happy-I will, F'nor cried, cutting more fruit.

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

Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.

Time, time, time. It's always the wrong time. When is now the time?

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

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

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

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

But she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not.

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

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

Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.