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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

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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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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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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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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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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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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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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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 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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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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