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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

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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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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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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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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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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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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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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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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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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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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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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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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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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