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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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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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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 did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
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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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"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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"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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"Make no judgements where you have no compassion."
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"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start."
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