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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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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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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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I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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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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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 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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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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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
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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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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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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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