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Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
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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Strike
Sear
Flames
Dawning
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I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well
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I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
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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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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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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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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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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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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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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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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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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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 didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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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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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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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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