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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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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
Animal
Infuriating
Ever
Proudest
Humans
Bravest
Perverse
Noblest
Courageous
Horse
Certainly
Domesticated

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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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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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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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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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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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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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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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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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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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I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write
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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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I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
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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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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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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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