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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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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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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
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Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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