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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

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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
Trying
Life
Wills
Tries
Loves
Lives
Inspirational
Doe

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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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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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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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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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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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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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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
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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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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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