“When you ride the winged horse, you can't dismount.”
Source: The Wings of Pegasus
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Famous Anne McCaffrey Quotes
Source: Dragonquest
“Girls, as you may have noticed, are dangerous.”
Source: Sky Dragons
“In the lake, in the center, the stars were mirrored.”
Source: Dragonquest
Source: Dragonquest
“None of my family is good at being patient. It's why we all become doctors.”
Source: The Death of Sleep
Source: Dragonsinger
“Adults are only grown-up children, after all.”
Source: Sky Dragons
“How old is too old when you've a right knack with the sick?”
Source: Nerilka's Story
“I hang between, in doubt to act or rest.”
Source: The Wings of Pegaus
Source: The Death of Sleep
Source: Nerilka's Story
“La experiencia real es el conocimiento”
Source: Dragonquest
Source: Dragonsong
“I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!”
“How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?”
“The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.”
Source: The Lady
“Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.”
“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.”
Source: The Dragonriders of Pern
“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.”
“Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day”
Source: Dragon's Time
Source: Dragon Harper
“My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.”
“Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims”
“I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime”
“I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff”
“I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway”
“At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book”
“I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage”
“Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.”
Source: Dragonsong