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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.

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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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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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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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