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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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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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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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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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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
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Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer
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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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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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