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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
Explore more quotes by Anne McCaffrey
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
"The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it."
"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."
"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."
"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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