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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.

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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James Blish told me I had the worst case of said bookism (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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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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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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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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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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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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