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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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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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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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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 didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
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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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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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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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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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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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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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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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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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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 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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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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