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
careers house stories
That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
mean stories emotion
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.
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
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
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.
Who tries, does. Who wills, can. Who loves, lives.
struggle knowing succeed
Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
halloween scary mind
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.
inspirational life trying
Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
crystals trios singers
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
stars flames soldier
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
dragons sky space
Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
dragons gmos people
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
war writing needs
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.