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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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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."

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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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"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."
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"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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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."
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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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"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."
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"Make no judgements where you have no compassion."
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