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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

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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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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