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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.
Piers Anthony
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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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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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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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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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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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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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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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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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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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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
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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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.
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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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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