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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

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
Knowing
Dies
Living
Something
Struggling
Tried
Succeed
Struggle
Impossible

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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
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The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
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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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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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