"I did not have a chance to write……" — Anne McCaffrey
"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime"
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41 Quotes by Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey has 41 quotes on this site.
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James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to…
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Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps…
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Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your…
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To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark…
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Chance Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
— Adam Arkin
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
— Jane Austen
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites…
— Ansel Adams
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be…
— Ernie Banks
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