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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
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Anne Inez McCaffrey
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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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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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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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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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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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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 have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
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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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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 don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
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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'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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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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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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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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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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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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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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