Anne McCaffrey

Born :1 April 1926

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Anne Mccaffrey born on 1st April 1926. As of today 7th May 2025 , we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 28 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

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

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.

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.

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

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.

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