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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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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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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 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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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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.
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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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.
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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
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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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