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Ramoth's huge golden wedge-shaped head swiveled around as the sleepy dragon instinctively sought her Wyermate.
— Anne McCaffrey
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
— Anne McCaffrey
For the right woman, we all strive to be a man worth his salt.
— Kristy McCaffrey
Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!
— Anne McCaffrey
My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.
— Nadia McCaffrey
Given the infinite variety of human personalities, it was impossible to like everyone.
— Anne McCaffrey
It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.
— Anne McCaffrey
Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition
— Anne McCaffrey
If he isn't clean now, I don't know what clean is!
— Anne McCaffrey
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
— Barry McCaffrey
True portraits are never realistic
— Anne McCaffrey
He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.
— Anne McCaffrey
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
— Anne McCaffrey
And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.
— Anne McCaffrey
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
— Anne McCaffrey
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.
— Anne McCaffrey
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
— Anne McCaffrey
My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
— Anne McCaffrey
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
— Barry McCaffrey
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes — Anne McCaffrey
That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it.
— Rob McCaffrey
I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
— Anne McCaffrey
Yes, I would die to save Meg McCaffrey. - Apollo/Lester
— Rick Riordan
Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hew
To honesty, integrity, and respect
All others without regard to intellect — Anne McCaffrey
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
— Anne McCaffrey
I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
— Anne McCaffrey
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
— Anne McCaffrey
It's easier to flatter a man than fight him.
— Anne McCaffrey
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
— Anne McCaffrey
Some folk, too, believe what the loudest talker says. And some folk because it frightens them not to.
— Anne McCaffrey
How much can a dragon carry?As much as it thinks it can — Anne McCaffrey
A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
— Anne McCaffrey
To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.
— Anne McCaffrey
Step by stepMoment by moment
We live through
Another day — Anne McCaffrey
Fire-lizard dance on wingTo the raucous song I sing.
Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,
Show me how the dragons learn. — Anne McCaffrey
Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above — Anne McCaffrey
There were two bronzes, three browns, a blue and two greens.
— Anne McCaffrey
It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak.
— Anne McCaffrey
Ridicule was a better defense than truth.
— Anne McCaffrey
Meg McCaffrey, a girl of few words and much belching.
— Rick Riordan
Maybes never are.
— Anne McCaffrey
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.
— Barry McCaffrey
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
— Anne McCaffrey
We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones
— Barry McCaffrey
Seed of a syphilitic she-camel,
— Anne McCaffrey
What do you think of Manchester Uniteds three Rs - Rooney, Ronaldo and van Nistelrooy?
— Rob McCaffrey
Isn't this planet big enough for differences?
— Anne McCaffrey
Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.
— Anne McCaffrey
Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.
— Anne McCaffrey
Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge.
— Anne McCaffrey
Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears.
— Anne McCaffrey
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.
— Anne McCaffrey
Who wills, Can.Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives. — Anne McCaffrey
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
— 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.
— Anne McCaffrey
Die happy-I will, F'nor cried, cutting more fruit.
— Anne McCaffrey
be you and not someone else
— Anne McCaffrey
Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."~ A thought by Lessa ~ — Anne McCaffrey
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.
— Anne McCaffrey
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
— Anne McCaffrey
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
— Barry McCaffrey
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
— Barry McCaffrey
speak hard, steal the air.
— Anne McCaffrey
Fight only in direst needNot for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth — Anne McCaffrey
Time, time, time. It's always the wrong time. When is now the time?
— Anne McCaffrey
Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
— Barry McCaffrey
A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.
— Anne McCaffrey
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
— Anne McCaffrey
That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
— Anne McCaffrey
Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
— Anne McCaffrey
Rider to your mate be trueFollow heart in deed and do
All the best your strength can find
So you will rest in heart and mind — Anne McCaffrey
If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live.
— Anne McCaffrey
The condemned man's voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. "Remember Father, evil is simply 'live' spelt backwards." Hellbound — David McCaffrey
What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic! Master
— Anne McCaffrey
It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it.
— Anne McCaffrey
Necessity breeds solution.
— Anne McCaffrey
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
— Anne McCaffrey
Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.
— Anne McCaffrey
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
— Anne McCaffrey
Do not fear death, for it does not fear you. We are not weak because we are women. Instead, we are strong.
— Kristy McCaffrey
Living is struggling to do something impossible;To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried. — Anne McCaffrey
But she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not.
— Anne McCaffrey