Anne McCaffrey Stories Quotations

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

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

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

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.