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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
Explore more quotes by Anne McCaffrey
"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
"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 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."
"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 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 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."
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