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

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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Lives
Inspirational
Doe
Trying
Life
Wills
Tries

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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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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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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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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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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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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 didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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 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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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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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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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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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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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