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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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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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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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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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.
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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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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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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