Love Quote by Anne McCaffrey

McCaffrey isn’t praising Irish talk so much as admitting she got pleasantly infected by it. “Cadence and fullness” is craft language disguised as travel anecdote: rhythm, mouthfeel, breath, the sonic architecture of a line. For a working novelist, speech isn’t decoration; it’s a delivery system for character and mood. When she says Ireland “changed” her, she frames language as an environment you inhale, not a tool you wield from a distance.

The sly part is her gentle exaggeration - “as many of them in a sentence as possible” - which flatters and teases at once. It nods to the stereotype of Irish verbal abundance (storytelling, charm, digression, a fondness for the scenic route) while also making a writer’s confession: verbosity can be a vice, but it’s also a pleasure. McCaffrey’s subtext is permission-giving. If you live among people who treat words as communal entertainment, you stop being so American about efficiency. You let a sentence loiter. You allow ornament, repetition, musicality.

Context matters here: McCaffrey was an American-born, Irish-based science fiction and fantasy writer, someone who built whole worlds out of voice. Her remark is less about national character than about what happens when a writer relocates and discovers a different default setting for conversation. Ireland becomes a writing workshop disguised as a country: a place where talk is performance, where language is social glue, and where “fullness” is not bloat but hospitality on the page.