American - Author | April 1, 1926 - November 21, 2011
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
Anne McCaffrey
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Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
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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 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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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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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
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A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
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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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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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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 what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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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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