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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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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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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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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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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 present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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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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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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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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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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