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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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Good

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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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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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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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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
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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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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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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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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
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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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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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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 do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
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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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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