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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.

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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start
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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
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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.
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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.
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Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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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.
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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
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The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
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