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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. "
Anne McCaffrey
World
Books
Comfort
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" I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio. "
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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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" Make no judgements where you have no compassion. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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 did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. "
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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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Short
Story
" A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it. "
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" I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway. "
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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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" 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 always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage. "
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Back
Always
" 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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" I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff. "
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Stuff
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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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Writing
Someone
" 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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" 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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Genetically
Life
" Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims. "
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Telling
Victims
" 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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Out
World
Windows
" 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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Story
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House
" 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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