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Anne McCaffrey

"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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"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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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

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"Everything started as nothing."

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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."

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"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

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"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production."

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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 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 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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"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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"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'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."
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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 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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"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 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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