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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims

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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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Mostly
Victim
Telling
People

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I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
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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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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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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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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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I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
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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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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
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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 didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well
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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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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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
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