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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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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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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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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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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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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 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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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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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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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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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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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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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