 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. |
| I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet. |
| I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it. |
| What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food. |
| I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio. |
| I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff. |
| 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. |
| I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. |
| People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form? |
| 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. |
| But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible. |
| Make no judgements where you have no compassion. |
| I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom. |
| At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
