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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
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need 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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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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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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