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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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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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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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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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Obviously it could be, because it was.
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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
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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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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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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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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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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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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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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
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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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