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Anne McCaffrey

"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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Donna Grant

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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Donna Grant

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

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Donna Grant

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

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"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

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Donna Grant

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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Donna Grant

"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."

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Donna Grant

"Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows."

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Donna Grant

"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply."

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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."

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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."

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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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"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

Beginning

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"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."

Living

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"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."

Energy

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Anne McCaffrey
"I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel."

Time

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"I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."

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"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."

Books

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"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"

Life

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