"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."

-- Anne McCaffrey

#War Quotes #Writing Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
“Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.”
“My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.”
“I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.”
“So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.”
“The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.”
“I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.”
“If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so. (I - The Great Leap Backwards)”

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