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Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-Irish writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was 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.

In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. April 1926 – 21. November 2011
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Dragonsong
Dragonsong
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Dragonsinger
Dragonsinger
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Dragon Harper
Dragon Harper
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Dragonsong
Dragonsong
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Dragonsinger
Dragonsinger
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Dragon Harper
Dragon Harper
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Famous Anne McCaffrey Quotes

“Don't leave me alone!
A cry in the night,
Of anguish heart-stiking,
Of soul-killing fright.

Live for my living
Or else I must die
Don't leave me alone.
A world heard that cry.”

Anne McCaffrey Dragonsinger

Source: Dragonsinger

“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.”

Anne McCaffrey

“When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.”

Anne McCaffrey Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

Source: Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern 1983

“Necessity breeds solution.”

Anne McCaffrey Dragonsinger

Source: Dragonsinger

“be you and not someone else”

Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey Quotes

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

Anne McCaffrey

Source: "Dragonrider", published in Analog (January 1968), p. 148; also in Dragonsong, (1976) Ch. 7, p. 89

“A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.”

Anne McCaffrey

“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.”

Anne McCaffrey book Nerilka's Story

Source: Nerilka's Story

“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.”

Anne McCaffrey book Acorna: The Unicorn Girl

Source: Acorna: The Unicorn Girl

“Step by step
Moment by moment
We live through
Another day”

Anne McCaffrey book Dragon Harper

Source: Dragon Harper

“There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.”

Anne McCaffrey Dragonsinger

Source: Dragonsinger

“Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes”

Anne McCaffrey book Dragonsong

Source: Dragonsong

“Maybes never are.”

Anne McCaffrey book Dragonsong

Source: Dragonsong

“Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away.”

Anne McCaffrey book Dragonsong

Source: Dragonsong

“Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed.”
~ A thought by Lessa ~”

Anne McCaffrey book Dragonflight

Source: Dragonflight

“Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth”

Anne McCaffrey book Dragon Harper

Source: Dragon Harper

“How much can a dragon carry?
As much as it thinks it can”

Anne McCaffrey

“He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.”

Anne McCaffrey book Acorna's Quest

Source: Acorna's Quest

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