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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.
Piers Anthony
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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 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.
Piers Anthony
Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
Piers Anthony
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.
Piers Anthony
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
Piers Anthony
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.
Piers Anthony
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.
Piers Anthony
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
Piers Anthony
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
Piers Anthony
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
Piers Anthony
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.
Piers Anthony
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Piers Anthony
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!
Piers Anthony
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.
Piers Anthony
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
Piers Anthony
If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
Piers Anthony
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.
Piers Anthony
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
Piers Anthony
Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
Piers Anthony
I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
Piers Anthony
