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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 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."
"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"
"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."
"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."
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
"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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