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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
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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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
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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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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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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
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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 did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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