Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern fantasy series. Early in McCaffrey's 46-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 April 1926
CountryUnited States of America
writing tools emotion
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
stories ships my-favorite
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
thinking views needs
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
use cowardice
Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
use speech cadence
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
writing stories form
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
book age needs
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
raises happened
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
steps another-day moments
Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
mean night up-all-night
I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
people victim
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
writing vocabulary style
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
writing together stories
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
night light dreamer
The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.