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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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I did not know at first that it would be a series I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
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Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
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Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
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I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens I am far more disciplined than that.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad editors won't even read them.
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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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She looked around. Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You! And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. And you. She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. But not you, she decided, encountering the zombie.
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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