Anne McCaffrey Quotes
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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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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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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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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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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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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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music - it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.
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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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Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
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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 have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
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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 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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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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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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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 didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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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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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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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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