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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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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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 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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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
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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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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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