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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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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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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony
Information is power. --Humfrey
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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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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
Piers Anthony
Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Piers Anthony
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
Piers Anthony
At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
Piers Anthony
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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