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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."
"My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."
"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."
"Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she tried to hold anything back, they would search and find the hidden places. Her written words, discovered, read were just the source of more pain and punishment. This was why she loved poetry. They did not always understand it so they left it alone."
Explore more quotes by Anne McCaffrey
"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."
"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."
"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."
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
"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."
"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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