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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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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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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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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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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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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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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 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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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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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No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
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