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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
Tell
Logical
Stories
Sentences
Together
Using
Without
Merely
Writing
Prove
Reader
String
Story
Strings
Words
Readers

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