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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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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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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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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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
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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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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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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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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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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.
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