Anne McCaffrey Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Anne McCaffrey on Wise Famous Quotes.
Ramoth's huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate.
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
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.
Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes
Harper to your word be true
Holder, crafter you also hew
To honesty, integrity, and respect
All others without regard to intellect
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!
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
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.
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.
Fire-lizard dance on wing
To the raucous song I sing.
Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,
Show me how the dragons learn.
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
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above
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
Follow heart in deed and do
All the best your strength can find
So you will rest in heart and mind
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.
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
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.
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 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.
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 thought by Lessa ~
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.
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
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
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth