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Anne McCaffrey quotes: Ramoth's huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate. Ramoth's huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage. I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried! Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Given the infinite variety of human personalities, it was impossible to like everyone. Given the infinite variety of human personalities, it was impossible to like everyone.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: 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. 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.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition
Anne McCaffrey quotes: If he isn't clean now, I don't know what clean is! If he isn't clean now, I don't know what clean is!
Anne McCaffrey quotes: True portraits are never realistic True portraits are never realistic
Anne McCaffrey quotes: He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase. He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims. Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame. And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Make no judgments where you have no compassion. Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: 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. 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.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway. I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice. My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff. I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect Harper to your word be true
Holder, crafter you also hew
To honesty, integrity, and respect
All others without regard to intellect
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet. I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form? People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
Anne McCaffrey quotes: It's easier to flatter a man than fight him. It's easier to flatter a man than fight him.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith. There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food. 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 quotes: Some folk, too, believe what the loudest talker says. And some folk because it frightens them not to. Some folk, too, believe what the loudest talker says. And some folk because it frightens them not to.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: How much can a dragon carry?As much as it thinks it can How much can a dragon carry?
As much as it thinks it can
Anne McCaffrey quotes: A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it. A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day Step by step
Moment by moment
We live through
Another day
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Fire-lizard dance on wingTo the raucous song I sing.Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,Show me how the dragons learn. Fire-lizard dance on wing
To the raucous song I sing.
Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,
Show me how the dragons learn.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above 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
Anne McCaffrey quotes: There were two bronzes, three browns, a blue and two greens. There were two bronzes, three browns, a blue and two greens.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak. It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Ridicule was a better defense than truth. Ridicule was a better defense than truth.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: speak hard, steal the air. speak hard, steal the air.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Rider to your mate be trueFollow heart in deed and doAll the best your strength can findSo you will rest in heart and mind 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
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and singOf hope and promise on dragonwing Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing
Of hope and promise on dragonwing
Anne McCaffrey quotes: A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable. A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Seed of a syphilitic she-camel, Seed of a syphilitic she-camel,
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Isn't this planet big enough for differences? Isn't this planet big enough for differences?
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts. Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond. Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio. I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Maybes never are. Maybes never are.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge. Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears. Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Who wills, Can.Who tries, Does.Who loves, Lives. Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Make no judgements where you have no compassion. Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: 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 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.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable? How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."~ A thought by Lessa ~ Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."
~ A thought by Lessa ~
Anne McCaffrey quotes: A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman. A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: 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. 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.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Fear has its uses but cowardice has none. Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: be you and not someone else be you and not someone else
Anne McCaffrey quotes: What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic! Master What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic! Master
Anne McCaffrey quotes: It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it. It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up. Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book. At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Necessity breeds solution. Necessity breeds solution.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: People don't change, love. React first, think later, regret at leisure. He People don't change, love. React first, think later, regret at leisure. He
Anne McCaffrey quotes: The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Die happy-I will, F'nor cried, cutting more fruit. Die happy-I will, F'nor cried, cutting more fruit.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation. Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Time, time, time. It's always the wrong time. When is now the time? Time, time, time. It's always the wrong time. When is now the time?
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom. I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Fight only in direst needNot for lust or petty greedHonor those that do give birthRespect them well for their full worth 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 quotes: Living is struggling to do something impossible;To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried. Living is struggling to do something impossible;
To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to! I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
Anne McCaffrey quotes: But she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not. But she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house. That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear. The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
Anne McCaffrey quotes: Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing. Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.

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