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Anne McCaffrey

"I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage."

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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 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."
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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."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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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?"
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