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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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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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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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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
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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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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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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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 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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Information is power. --Humfrey
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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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