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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff

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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
Pension
Ireland
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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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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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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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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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
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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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Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
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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 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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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
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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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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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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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