#rite

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

#cannot #end #favorite #folks #i

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#child #did #fulltime #i #novels

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#happened #i #raise #todd #writer

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 write. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#bad #bad days #cost #count #days

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. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#dealing #i #i think #might #minutiae

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. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#doodle #form #harder #i #lot

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it. ↗

— Don Johnson

#enough #everybody #guitar #hell #i

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes. ↗

— Donald McKay

#individual #manner #natural #processes #thought

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#know #lies #means #people #truth

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#eat #him #intercourse #life #lived