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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

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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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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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Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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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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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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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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