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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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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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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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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 the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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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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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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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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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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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it 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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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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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