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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Science Fiction Writer
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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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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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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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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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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
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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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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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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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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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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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