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
horse animal courageous
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
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.
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?
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
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
use cowardice
Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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.
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.
struggle knowing succeed
Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
american-author life
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.
american-author
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
american-author good
A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.