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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

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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
Children
Youngest
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Novels
Novel
Started
Child
Chance
Write
School

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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 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
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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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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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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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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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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
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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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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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