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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.
Piers Anthony
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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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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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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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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
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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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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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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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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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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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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
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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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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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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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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
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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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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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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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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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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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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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