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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.

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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Exist
Making
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Writing
Believe
Believing

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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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