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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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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
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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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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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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 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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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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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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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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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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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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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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James Blish told me I had the worst case of said bookism (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.
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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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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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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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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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