Anne McCaffrey
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a bookCollection: Book
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 endCollection: Stories
I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as wellCollection: Thinking
I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!Collection: Mean
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 writeCollection: Stupid
I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuffCollection: Stuff
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 conceptCollection: Book
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anywayCollection: Raises
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 novelCollection: Writing
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltimeCollection: Children
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stageCollection: Writing
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 startCollection: Encouragement
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.Collection: Music
How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?Collection: Art
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music - it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.Collection: Music