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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
Struggle
Impossible
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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 blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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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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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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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
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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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