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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
Piers Anthony
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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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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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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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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 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.
Piers Anthony
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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