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

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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
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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'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
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