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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.
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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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.
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
Piers Anthony
Obviously it could be, because it was.
Piers Anthony
...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony
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
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
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
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
Piers Anthony