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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.

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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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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The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
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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 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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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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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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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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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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Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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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 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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