Anne McCaffrey
Author
1926-04-01 – 2011-11-21
Anne McCaffrey was an American-born science fiction and fantasy author, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series.
Quotes by Anne McCaffrey
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Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day
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speak hard, steal the air.
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Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.
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My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever beenAnd only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day
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My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever beenAnd only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.
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speak hard, steal the air.
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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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.
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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.
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
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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!
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