Anne McCaffrey Quotes

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

Step by step, Moment by moment, We live through another day.

Living is struggling to do something impossible; to succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

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.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

Mostly I’m telling people that they don’t have to be victims

That’s what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

Drummer, beat, and piper, blow. Harper, strike, and soldier go. Free the flame and sear the grasses till the dawning Red Star passes.

I also don’t have organized religion on Pern. I figured – since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing – that religion was one problem Pern didn’t need.