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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

Anne McCaffrey

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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
Write
Didn
Count
Used
Foolish
Young
Cost
Back
Stupid
Writing
Takes
Much
Days
Good
Energy

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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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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'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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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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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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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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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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