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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony
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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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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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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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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
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